Union County Police Chiefs' Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237031920
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Elizabeth, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9085582024
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $86,643
- Expenses
- $53,346
- Assets
- $85,437
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FRANK MAZZARELLA (PRESIDENT)
- JEFFREY BRIEL (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)
- SHAUN GANLEY (2ND VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- FRANK MAZZARELLA (PRESIDENT)
- JEFFREY BRIEL (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)
- SHAUN GANLEY (2ND VICE PRESIDENT)
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 purposes for which this chiefs association is organized is to secure a closer official and personal relationship among police officials and police chiefs throughout union county, and to secure unity of action in police matters and elevate the standards of police institutions; to further the adoption of humane efforts in the enforcement of laws, the advancement along all lines pertaining to the prevention and detection of crime, and the promotion of police and education in general.
What it reported doing in 2025
Support of union county police academy and cit programs
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 85% 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.4%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 77.2%; rating input score 77
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 38.4%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.6; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48.4% of revenue deployed · 77.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $41K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.