Retired Deputy Sheriffs Association of San Diego County
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 882596300
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Lakeside, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8777371850
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- History Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $53,831
- Expenses
- $37,367
- Assets
- $24,866
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Russell Burkett (President)
- Earl F Murphy (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Russell Burkett (President)
- Kim Crosser (Treasurer)
- Melanie Perry (Secretary)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Retired Deputy Sheriffs' Association of San Diego County (dba San Diego Sheriffs Museum) researches, preserves and champions the heritage, heroism, and honorable service of the San Diego Sheriff's Office; and increases awareness, understanding, and mutual respect between the Sheriff's Office and the public.
What it reported doing in 2025
The San Diego Sheriff's Museum (SDSM) conducted public presentations on the history of the San Diego Sheriff's Office to various organizations around San Diego County. SDSM also worked with the Sheriff's Office to properly catalog, archive, and preserve historical artifacts for future inclusion in the Museum.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 86.4%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.6%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -32.5% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.7% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 99% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60% of revenue deployed · 86.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $32K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.