Tulare County Sheriffs Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 815004533
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Visalia, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5592801637
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $36,369
- Expenses
- $47,673
- Assets
- $112,841
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Steve Nelson (President)
People named in this filing
- Steve Nelson (President)
- Gabriel Jacquez (Chairman)
- Richard Mendivil (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 mission of the Tulare County Sheriff's Office is to improve the quality of life through professional services and community partnerships.
What it reported doing in 2025
Crime fighting tools to contribute to public safety. The goal of the K-9 Unit is to protect the citizens of Tulare County, apprehend suspects and add to the safety of the deputies. The trained Sherrif's canine performs a vital and necessary service to the community. Services include:* Apprehension of ciminal offenders*Locate missing persons*Searches of building and property*Provide crowd control*Provide public awareness demonstrations. Meet Your Deputy event is designed to strengthen our unincorporated communities by encouraging neighborhoods to engage in stronger relationships with each other and with their local law enforecement partners. This approach promotes community, government and police partnerships; proactive problem solving; and community engagement to address the causes of crime, fear of crime and other community quality of life issues. Community Partnerships are joint efforts between law enforement agencies and their communities to address the significant crime and qualifty of life issues. The FREE event included Bounce Houses, Obstacle Courses, Snow Cones and Popcorn, Raffle Prizes and an up-close look at the TCSO SWAT Bearcat, Drones and much more! The Explorer Program is a worksite-based program that is a branch of the Boy Souts of America. The Explorer Program is a structed hands-on program which gives young men and women who are 14 through 20 years old the academic and technical training needed to become future law enforment officers. The program also gives Explorers the leadership skills and self-dicipline to become successful community leaders. Some typical activities include uniformed patrol ride-alongs to observe officers at work, classes on law enforement topics, and interacting with public during street fairs, parades, or other civic events. The Explorer Program empowers young people of Tulare County to possibly have a rewarding career in law enforcement and / or utilize their knowledge and develop into future leaders in Tulare.
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
- 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: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -31.1%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.37; rating input score 69; 69th 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: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.