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WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF SHERIFFS AND POLICE CHIEFS

WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF SHERIFFS AND POLICE CHIEFS (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,706 to it, the largest being PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES - WASHINGTON ($35,568). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$29M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$36k
Net assets
$7.4M
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs does

Mission

To provide a means for law enforcement executives in washington state to identify and cooperate in the solution of common problems relating to the management of law enforcement agencies and the delivery of law enforcement and correctional services.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.

Sexual assault kit investigations and uof/dti training grants ended in june 2024.

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).

  1. Sex offender address verification - provide grants to local sheriffs' offices to verify the addresses of all registered sex offenders. There are currently around 18,000 offenders being monitored by local law enforcement.

    $4,875,635 spentof which $4,814,766 as grants
    18% of program spending
  2. Mental health field response teams (mhfrt) - provide grants to local agencies to collaborate with mental & behaviorial health agencies. Provide a co-responder with officers to reduce incarceration in situations where intervention is beneficial.

    $4,598,174 spentof which $4,536,260 as grants
    17% of program spending
  3. Wa auto theft prevention authority - provide grant funds to local law enforcement agencies to combat auto theft.

    $3,745,818 spentof which $3,520,778 as grants
    14% of program spending
  4. Arrest and jail alternatives - provide grants to local agencies to work in communites to reduces violent interactions and provide behavioral health/social services before jail/incarceration.

    $2,660,456 spentof which $2,529,966 as grants
    10% of program spending
  5. Correctional options services - provide home detention & other sentencing alternatives to incarcerated persons convicted of crimes by local & state courts. This program is currently operating with an average daily population of 445. Cost savings to the state and local community vary based on the type of program run (booking fees, medical costs or jail costs).

    $509,663 spent$1,227,482 earned by the program
    2% of program spending
  6. Jail booking & reporting system - collect statewide jail statistics. Includes development, implementation, training and transition to information systems. Includes the statewide automated victim info network and the protection order program.

    $1,580,268 spent
    6% of program spending
  7. Body worn camera grants - provide law enforcement with grants to purchase body worn cameras.

    $1,278,261 spentof which $1,278,261 as grants
    5% of program spending
  8. Internet crimes against children - provide funding to the seattle police department for task force to fight internet crimes against children.

    $1,131,000 spent
    4% of program spending
  9. Health care authority data extract - provide jail data to the wa health care authority for the purposes of benefit reinstatement and suspension.

    $1,095,408 spent
    4% of program spending
  10. Law enforcement behavioral health grant program - wa legislature provided grant funding to local law enforcement agencies to stand up or expand local officer wellness programs in individual departments and regionally. Programs may include wellness trainings, equipment that promotes wellness, memberships, etc.

    $964,621 spent
    4% of program spending
  11. Moud (managing opiod use disorder) in jails - grant that provides for service contract with substance abuse service to provide jails with support services to treat offenders with substance use disorder.

    $859,150 spentof which $741,517 as grants
    3% of program spending
  12. Training - work closely with washington state criminal justice training commission to provide executive level training to members. Provide support to membership through working committees, representation on stakeholder committees and providing executive-level law enforcement point of view.

    $827,804 spentof which $17,732 as grants$127,755 earned by the program
    3% of program spending
  13. Sex offender website - provide communities with registered sex offender information; e.g., type of conviction, location of registered residence, vicinity to schools, etc. Also linked with national sex offender registry.

    $443,358 spent
    2% of program spending
  14. Conference/memorabilia - provides membership with semi-annual conferences. Includes state certified training as well as committee meetings and chief/sheriff/jail manager meetings.

    $416,021 spent$576,630 earned by the program
    2% of program spending
  15. Denied firearm transaction notification - work closely with federal firearm licensors to collect and compare persons denied purchase of a firearm with the victim protective order system.

    $388,363 spentof which $73,400 as grants
    1% of program spending
  16. Uniform crime reporting/incident-based reporting - collect state-wide crime statistics for annual "crime in washington state" report. Development, implementation and transition to incident based reporting.

    $338,498 spent
    1% of program spending
  17. Project safe neighborhoods - provide funding for prosecutors, task forces, media outreach and training in support of the president's gun violence initiative.

    $278,741 spentof which $264,693 as grants
    1% of program spending
  18. Covid in jails mitigation - grant provides funding for testing and other covid mitigation supplies in local jails.

    $274,593 spentof which $246,581 as grants
    1% of program spending
  19. Traffic grants - provide law enforcement with equipment and educational grants.

    $233,912 spentof which $191,781 as grants
    1% of program spending
  20. Accreditation/loaned executive management assistance program - provide law enforcement agencies with standards. Work with agencies to accredit agencies according to set standards.

    $174,911 spent$250,550 earned by the program
    1% of program spending
  21. 24/7 dui monitoring program, courts can sentence dui offenders to this program. Participants are tested twice daily to affirm they are not using alcohol during the term of their jail sentence.

    $7,497 spent
    0% of program spending
  22. Other programs - other small programs include jail standards workgroup, lemos training, missing persons website, sex offender record retention.

    $156,524 spent$25,850 earned by the program
    1% of program spending

The 22 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,838,676.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($14M) Expenses 100 ($14M) Net assets 100 ($4.0M)2018 Revenue 105 ($15M) Expenses 105 ($15M) Net assets 101 ($4.1M)2019 Revenue 109 ($16M) Expenses 110 ($16M) Net assets 104 ($4.2M)2020 Revenue 129 ($19M) Expenses 123 ($18M) Net assets 132 ($5.3M)2021 Revenue 135 ($19M) Expenses 136 ($19M) Net assets 130 ($5.2M)2022 Revenue 175 ($25M) Expenses 171 ($24M) Net assets 147 ($5.9M)2023 Revenue 179 ($26M) Expenses 178 ($25M) Net assets 160 ($6.4M)2024 Revenue 201 ($29M) Expenses 197 ($28M) Net assets 183 ($7.4M)
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Revenue (201)Expenses (197)Net assets (183)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $9.3M to $12M (+27%).

$7.8M
$7.6M
$7.6M
$9.6M
$9.3M
$12M
$13M
$13M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 92% · 2018 91% · 2019 90% · 2020 93% · 2021 93% · 2022 93% · 2023 94% · 2024 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$111k
’17
$97k
’18
$65k
’19
$1.0M
’20
−$92k
’21
$887k
’22
$437k
’23
$885k
’24
1.2
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.

Chief executive

Steven Strachan

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2223212123222321
Joined·+4+6+4+5+5+6+1
No longer listed·3843653
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $68 → $36k.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF SHERIFFS AND POLICE CHIEFS’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

WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF SHERIFFS AND POLICE CHIEFS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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

100% 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 WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF SHERIFFS AND POLICE CHIEFS.

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 74% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF SHERIFFS AND POLICE CHIEFS's grant income comes from Washington funders.

WA
ID

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF SHERIFFS AND POLICE CHIEFS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.1M on record.

Federal$4.1M
grants $4.1Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Justice$4.1M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WA

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Questions and answers

Who funds WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF SHERIFFS AND POLICE CHIEFS?
WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF SHERIFFS AND POLICE CHIEFS (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,706 to it, the largest being PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES - WASHINGTON ($35,568). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF SHERIFFS AND POLICE CHIEFS have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $35,706 in grants to WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF SHERIFFS AND POLICE CHIEFS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF SHERIFFS AND POLICE CHIEFS?
PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES - WASHINGTON is the largest funder on record, with $35,568 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF SHERIFFS AND POLICE CHIEFS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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