Florida · Nonprofit
The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc
The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc (Florida) receives grants from 204 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,492,248 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,357,408). 113 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.3M
- Funders on record
- 204
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $24M
What The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc does
Mission
The PBPFF is a charitable organization that supports the Town of Palm Beach First Responders and the local community at large with education, equipment and advocacy; empowering peace of mind with the knowledge that their families and futures are safe and supported. The Foundation pursues this mission by actively engaging in initiatives and programs approved by the board of directors, including but not limited to: Scholarships for the education of children of police and fire personnel, supplemental equipment and training, emergency assistance to police and fire personnel in need, providing public safety training and education to the community at large, and by advocating for and promoting community wide support for the police and fire personnel of the Town of Palm Beach.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Higher Education Scholarships - This program provides scholarships to qualified children of sworn officers, firefighters and civilian employees of the Palm Beach Police and Fire Rescue Departments. Over the past year, the Foundation awarded higher education scholarships to 23 qualified children, totaling $233,656. Emergency Financial Assistance - This program offers emergency financial assistance to officers and firefighters injured or disabled in the line of duty, or suffering from other personal emergencies or financial crisis.Police and Fire Rescue Dept Supplements - (continued on Schedule O) This program provides supplementary funding to the police and fire rescue departments for additional training, equipment and other unfunded needs, and grants to officers and firefighters to attend events or in times of need.Preston Bernick Retention Program - the Palm Beach Police & Fire Foundation makes an annual contribution to the Palm Beach First Responders Foundation to fund the Preston Bernick Retention plan, a qualified retirement plan built to encourage recruitment and retention for the Palm Beach Police and Fire Rescue Departments. Life Insurance Benefit for First Responders - the…
$3,156,815 spentof which $2,046,405 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,156,815.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $20M to $25M (+23%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
John F Scarpa
CEO & Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 81 funders, grant income rose $255k → $2.1M.
11 of 204 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $464k from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Palm Beach Country Club Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 204 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 12 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 12 funders to its left
32% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 10% · 2018 26% · 2019 16% · 2020 13% · 2021 12% · 2022 11% · 2023 15% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
42% of The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
58% of The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Palm Beach First Responders Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc?
- The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc (Florida) receives grants from 204 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,492,248 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,357,408). 113 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 204 organizations giving $10,492,248 in grants to The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc, 113 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,357,408 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 204 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing