Santa Ana Police Officers Widows & Orphans Fund

Analysis

Santa Ana Police Officers Widows & Orphans Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Ana, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1999, 27 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 December 2023, Santa Ana Police Officers Widows & Orphans Fund reported income of $50k and spending of $96k, spending 192% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $66k to $50k (-24%), an average of -6.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 159%. Over the whole period it spent 191% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Santa Ana Police Officers Widows & Orphans Fund sits at the 25th percentile: it is larger than about 25% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 20th percentile, and in the 21st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dangelo Foundation ($50k), Kardashian Jenner Family Foundation Inc ($50k) and Constance Foundation Inc ($50k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 124% of the total. At year end it held assets of $495k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $495k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.