Milpitas Police Officers Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237099431
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Milpitas, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4089826762
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Labor Unions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $281,498
- Expenses
- $340,260
- Assets
- $134,909
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIAN THANH (PRESIDENT)
- ERIC BERNARDO (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ERIC BERNARDO (VICE PRESIDENT): $9,750 total reported compensation
- BRIAN THANH (PRESIDENT): $6,600 total reported compensation
- LESLY SAUCEDA (TREASURER): $6,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote and encourage within the milpitas police department the highest of professional standards in law enforcement; to support the law enforcement code of ethics and to unite all represented persons within the association for the betterment of their economic, social, and professioanl levels and standards, and to serve as the representative body in all negotiation proceedings for the mutual benefit of all represented personnel of the milpitas police department.
What it reported doing in 2025
Representation of the milipitas police officers on legal & professional proceedings and provide safety tools for police officers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 97% 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -20.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.6%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $264K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $10K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 28 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.