South Dakota Law Enforcement Charities

Analysis

South Dakota Law Enforcement Charities is a registered charity in United States, based in Sioux Falls, SD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1996, 30 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, South Dakota Law Enforcement Charities reported income of $100k and spending of $44k, leaving 56% of income unspent that year. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $47k to $100k (+114%), an average of +114% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 114%. Over the whole period it spent 60% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, South Dakota Law Enforcement Charities sits at the 42nd percentile: it is larger than about 42% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 37th percentile, and in the 32nd percentile within SD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Buckeye Career Center Foundation Inc ($100k), First Presbyterian Church of Bay City Foundation ($100k) and Comprehensive Systems Inc Foundation ($100k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 87% of the total. At year end it held assets of $89k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $89k.