Dallas Police Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
756029267
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Dallas, TX, USA
Phone
2147476839
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,399,395
Expenses
$2,085,768
Assets
$4,550,222
Liabilities
$314,078

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jamie Castro (President)
  • Phillip Elliot (Vice President)
  • Sean Peace (Vice President)
  • Demarcus Turner (Vice President)
  • Luis Zacarias (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Jamie Castro (President): $35,000 total reported compensation
  • James Parnell (Treasurer): $17,920 total reported compensation
  • Phillip Elliot (Vice President): $15,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The DPA vigorously pursues its goal of a better future for Dallas. Through its many diverse programs, the DPA seeks to make better a home for its residents by creating a better environment for its police officers. In addition to legal, legislative, and support activities, the DPA also sponsors many programs to enhance the quality of life.

What it reported doing in 2025

Legal defense and general support of its members

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Accountability: 63
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.2%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 92.3%; rating input score 92
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 13.1%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.18; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80.2% of revenue deployed · 92.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 2470 of 2470 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $688K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $35K · 6 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $675K reported
  • Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 8 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.