Utah · Nonprofit
The Salt Lake City Police Foundation
The Salt Lake City Police Foundation (Utah) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $299,000 to it, the largest being SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION ($60,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $223k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $299k
- Net assets
- $162k
What The Salt Lake City Police Foundation does
Mission
The Organization supports the Salt Lake Police Department and its Officers and serves the community through youth programs and community outreach.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The Organization added a training and safety program to provide training for the officers and to provide safety equipment for the patrol officers for the 2025 year
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The Organization discontinued the New Hope Initiative Program and the Patch Program
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Community Outreach Victim Advocate Fund Station Tours Trick or Treat at Station Youth programs Golf with a Cop Friday Night Hoops Pay it Forward Back to School and Holiday Shopping 2000 people served
$60,454 spent$64,721 earned by the program43% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$58,997 spent42% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$22,674 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $142,125.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2023 to 2024, from $92k to $155k (+68%).
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.
99% of The Salt Lake City Police Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Mary VanMinde
Executive Director
Board chair
Alison Looney- Swillinger
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $5k → $68k.
2 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of The Salt Lake City Police Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 Salt Lake City Police Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 47% · 2021 25% · 2022 27% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.
“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
25% of The Salt Lake City Police Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
84% of The Salt Lake City Police Foundation's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 Salt Lake City Police Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The Salt Lake City Police Foundation
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Salt Lake City Police Foundation: 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 Salt Lake City Police Foundation?
- The Salt Lake City Police Foundation (Utah) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $299,000 to it, the largest being SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION ($60,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Salt Lake City Police Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $299,000 in grants to The Salt Lake City Police Foundation, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Salt Lake City Police Foundation?
- SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Salt Lake City Police Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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