The Boston Police Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043209395
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022
- Location
- Woburn, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6177062561
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $86,533
- Expenses
- $64,685
- Assets
- $59,454
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
People named in this filing
- CARL JENKINS (CHAIRMAN)
- NANCY RENO (VICE CHAIR)
- KEVIN CLOHERTY (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The boston police foundation (foundation) was formed in 1993 as a charitable organization, exempt from tax under code section 501(c)(3), with the specific mission of advancing public safety by supporting and funding programs that strengthen the performance, competence and professionalism of the boston police department (bpd) and its officers and members. The foundation also provides funding and financial support for a variety of programs that are designed to promote public safety in neighborhoods and communities that comprise the city of boston, Massachusetts and its surrounding areas. The foundation in some cases operates directly, and in other cases provides financial support for programs run by other charitable organizations, or by the bpd, that advance the organizations's goals and purposes.
What it reported doing in 2022
Crime Stoppers - This is a program operated by the BPD that encourages citizens to call a non-traceable hot line to provide information on an anonymous basis concerning perpetrators of crimes and criminal activity. More recently, this program, under the name Text A Tip, has garnered national atention through it pioneering efforts to use text messaging from cell phones as a means of fast communication between concerned citizens and the police. The Foundation supports the infrastructure of the Text A Tip program, and also funds monetary awards that are given for information that leads to the arrest and indictment of criminals. The Foundation is a participant in the International Crime Stoppers program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.3%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 84.7%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $21.63 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.2%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -19.1% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -25.9% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -32.4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.3% of revenue deployed · 84.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $55K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2013 to 2022
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.