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VENTURA SHERIFF K-9 FOUNDATION

VENTURA SHERIFF K-9 FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,000 to it, the largest being Sun Shine On You Foundation ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$251k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$7k
Net assets
$1.1M
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Ventura Sheriff K-9 Foundation does

Mission

Support and enhance the services provided by the ventura county sherriff's canine unit.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provided education and enhanced public awareness about law enforcement canines and the services they provide to the communities. Purchased canines, canine medical costs, canine dental costs, canine food, canine training, and equipment for the vetura county seriff's department canine unit.

    $192,745 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $192,745.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($69k) Expenses 100 ($80k) Net assets 100 ($132k)2018 Revenue 193 ($132k) Expenses 136 ($109k) Net assets 118 ($155k)2019 Revenue 139 ($96k) Expenses 53 ($42k) Net assets 158 ($208k)2020 Revenue 1558 ($1.1M) Expenses 91 ($73k) Net assets 914 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 32 ($22k) Expenses 110 ($88k) Net assets 792 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 55 ($38k) Expenses 199 ($159k) Net assets 797 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 256 ($176k) Expenses 314 ($252k) Net assets 752 ($992k)2024 Revenue 482 ($331k) Expenses 281 ($226k) Net assets 832 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 365 ($251k) Expenses 352 ($282k) Net assets 807 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (365)Expenses (352)Net assets (807)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $208k to $1.2M (+479%).

$132k
$155k
$208k
$1.2M
$1.0M
$1.1M
$992k
$1.1M
$1.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

26% of VENTURA SHERIFF K-9 FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,485 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$12k
’17
$23k
’18
$53k
’19
$997k
’20
−$66k
’21
−$121k
’22
−$76k
’23
$105k
’24
−$31k
’25
16
months of
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed555788
Joined·+5+0+5+1+0
No longer listed·50300
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of VENTURA SHERIFF K-9 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

VENTURA SHERIFF K-9 FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

71%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of VENTURA SHERIFF K-9 FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

VENTURA SHERIFF K-9 FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−12% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve15.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 3%Fundraising 28%

Governance

8
board members
63%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

79%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VENTURA SHERIFF K-9 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 VENTURA SHERIFF K-9 FOUNDATION?
VENTURA SHERIFF K-9 FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,000 to it, the largest being Sun Shine On You Foundation ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VENTURA SHERIFF K-9 FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $7,000 in grants to VENTURA SHERIFF K-9 FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of VENTURA SHERIFF K-9 FOUNDATION?
Sun Shine On You Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VENTURA SHERIFF K-9 FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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