Invest to Protect Our Law Enforcement Officers Inc

Analysis

Invest to Protect Our Law Enforcement Officers Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbia, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1995, 31 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 June 2023, Invest to Protect Our Law Enforcement Officers Inc reported income of $2.0m and spending of $1.5m, leaving 25% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $452k to $2.0m (+336%), an average of +44% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 195%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Invest to Protect Our Law Enforcement Officers Inc 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 89th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Black United Fund of Oregon Inc ($2.0m), United Way of East Central Alabama ($2.0m) and United Way of Washington County ($2.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. It paid $351k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $1.0m against liabilities of $55k, net assets of $977k.