Howard County Police Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521900769
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Ellicott City, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4103133384
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $53,630
- Expenses
- $59,292
- Assets
- $300,538
- Liabilities
- $4,250
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEVIN MURPHY (PRESIDENT)
- SUE EMERSON (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DOUGLAS BEIGEL (DIRECTOR)
- DAVID CHEUVRONT (DIRECTOR)
- EDDIE WINKLEY (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The foundation works with the police department and community to develop innovative programs, publicize services and fund projects not otherwise possible under the county budget. The foundation allows the police department to attain the "leading edge of excellence" rarely reached through traditional government support. It stimulates creativity and imagination in policing by providing the often elusive "seed money" for worthy projects and by facilitating the direct transfer of business expertise to the management of law enforcement.
What it reported doing in 2024
Police museum - teaches about the bravery, dedication and sacrifices displayed by the men and women of hcpd while keeping the community safe. Public is educated about the stories of the officers who have given their lives in service to their fellow citizens; about major cases the department has investigated, the disasters that were responded to, and the times care was renderedand safekeeping to people in need.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 3
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 2.8%; rating input score 3
- Program expense ratio: 2.5%; rating input score 3
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.6%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.07; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -12.4% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 2.8% of revenue deployed · 2.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 3/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.