The Professional Peace Officers Star and Shield Foundation

Analysis

The Professional Peace Officers Star and Shield Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in San Dimas, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 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, The Professional Peace Officers Star and Shield Foundation reported income of $158k and spending of $128k, spending 81% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $143k to $158k (+10%), an average of +2.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 107%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Professional Peace Officers Star and Shield Foundation sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile, and in the 50th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Nathalie & Theodore Jones Charitabl TR Fbo First Parish in Waltham ($158k), E C Hinds Academy Foundation Inc ($158k) and Wolf Creek Foundation ($158k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 147% of the total. At year end it held assets of $354k against liabilities of $45k, net assets of $309k.