South Dakota Peace Officers Assoc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460211937
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Huron, SD, USA
- Phone
- 9182326703
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,356
- Expenses
- $58,035
- Assets
- $191,053
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRIS LAU (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CHRIS LAU (PRESIDENT)
- BRUCE SAHLI (1ST VICE-PRE)
- JOHN WOLLMAN (2ND VICE-PRE)
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
Law enforcement training and education
What it reported doing in 2025
Providing burial benefits for law enforcement officers, making donations to law enforcement training, and sponsoring an annual law enforcement seminar.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.8%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 86.5%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.8%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.29; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.8% of revenue deployed · 86.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.