San Diego Police Officers Association Foundation

Analysis

San Diego Police Officers Association Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in San Diego, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending July 2023, San Diego Police Officers Association Foundation reported income of $1.9m and spending of $529k, leaving 73% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2019 to July 2023, income grew from $492k to $1.9m (+293%), an average of +41% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2023, when income rose by 548%. Over the whole period it spent 56% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, San Diego Police Officers Association Foundation sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Watertown Area Community Foundation ($1.9m), Heartland United Way Inc ($1.9m) and Penn-Mar Foundation ($1.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending July 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% of the total. It paid $78k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $2.7m against liabilities of $207k, net assets of $2.4m.