- Revenue 2024
- $7,343,416
- Expenses 2024
- $4,082,930
Program services were 77.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- I122
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 400 ROYAL PALM WAY STE 206
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
The PBPFF is a charitable organization that supports the Town of Palm Beach First Responders and the local community at large with education, equipment and advocacy; empowering peace of mind with the knowledge that their families and futures are safe and supported. The Foundation pursues this mission by actively engaging in initiatives and programs approved by the board of directors, including but not limited to: Scholarships for the education of children of police and fire personnel, supplemental equipment and training, emergency assistance to police and fire personnel in need, providing public safety training and education to the community at large, and by advocating for and promoting community wide support for the police and fire personnel of the Town of Palm Beach.
Activities or mission (Part I)
The PBPFF is a charitable organization that supports the Town of (continued on Schedule O)Palm Beach First Responders and the local community at large with education, equipment and advocacy; empowering peace of mind with the knowledge that their families and futures are safe and supported.
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Higher Education Scholarships - This program provides scholarships to qualified children of sworn officers, firefighters and civilian employees of the Palm Beach Police and Fire Rescue Departments. Over the past year, the Foundation awarded higher education scholarships to 23 qualified children, totaling $233,656. Emergency Financial Assistance - This program offers emergency financial assistance to officers and firefighters injured or disabled in the line of duty, or suffering from other personal emergencies or financial crisis.Police and Fire Rescue Dept Supplements - (continued on Schedule O) This program provides supplementary funding to the police and fire rescue departments for additional training, equipment and other unfunded needs, and grants to officers and firefighters to attend events or in times of need.Preston Bernick Retention Program - the Palm Beach Police & Fire Foundation makes an annual contribution to the Palm Beach First Responders Foundation to fund the Preston Bernick Retention plan, a qualified retirement plan built to encourage recruitment and retention for the Palm Beach Police and Fire Rescue Departments. Life Insurance Benefit for First Responders - the Foundation now provides the premium payments for term life insurance policies for all first responders and civilian employees of the police and fire rescue departments. The Foundation makes annual premium payments, so that the $500,000 death benefit for each individual would be tax free.
Expenses $3,156,815 · Grants $2,046,405
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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John F Scarpa
CEO & Chairman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20 + 1 related
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Timothy Moran
Vice Chairman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20 + 1 related
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David S Mack
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Michael Belisle
1st Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20 + 1 related
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Annie Falk
Asst. Secretary/Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5 + 1 related
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E Hunter Beebe
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Howard B Bernick
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Jeff Greene
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Lawrence Herbert
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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John W Jordan II
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Michele Kessler
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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William I Koch
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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David Levinson
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Janet Levy
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jeffrey A Marcus
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
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John WS Preston
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5 + 1 related
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Thomas C Quick
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Herb Shear
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Rebecca Godwin
President & COO
- Total calculated
- $198,786
- From this org
- $188,865
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $9,921
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $173,500
- Bonus
- $15,365
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $8,675
- Nontaxable benefits
- $1,246
- Filer's total
- $198,786
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2024
- Revenue
- $7,343,416
- Expenses
- $4,082,930
- Contributions
- $7,311,871
- Grants paid
- $2,046,405
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2023
- Revenue
- $6,418,502
- Expenses
- $4,089,231
- Contributions
- $6,351,201
- Grants paid
- $2,177,546
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2022
- Revenue
- $5,207,707
- Expenses
- $3,058,656
- Contributions
- $5,418,472
- Grants paid
- $1,438,681
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Other returns filed
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,726,750
- Expenses
- $2,829,063
- Assets (EOY)
- $12,553,340
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,726,750
- Expenses
- $2,829,063
- Assets (EOY)
- $12,553,340
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,443,053
- Expenses
- $1,577,548
- Assets (EOY)
- $12,412,306
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,164,192
- Expenses
- $1,317,248
- Assets (EOY)
- $9,169,788
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,329,790
- Expenses
- $1,014,633
- Assets (EOY)
- $7,374,011
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,231,802
- Expenses
- $720,407
- Assets (EOY)
- $6,162,107
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $863,202
- Expenses
- $356,805
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,987,993
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,093,766
- Expenses
- $583,740
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,558,722
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $728,743
- Expenses
- $303,448
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,110,209
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $486,418
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,522,288
Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.
Grants made
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Town Of Palm Beach
$653,805
2023 Cad/rms initial pymt + 1st year pymt.
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Town Of Palm Beach
$399,120
2024 PD Camera System
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Town Of Palm Beach
$214,845
2023 Fire Dept Mobile Training Tower.
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Town Of Palm Beach
$94,250
2023 Fire Dept AED Project.
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Palm Beach Police Department
$65,533
2022 Replacement guns for Palm Beach Police.
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Town Of Palm Beach
$55,000
2024 Fire Dept AED Project.
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Town Of Palm Beach
$50,000
2022 For enhancement of camera system.
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Town Of Palm Beach
$37,569
2022 Elegard Stretchers for Palm Beach Fire Rescue (paid to the Town).
Grants received
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$472,858
2023 EDUCATION
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$334,800
2024 EDUCATION
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$330,000
2024 HUMAN SERVICES
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2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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$302,750
2022 HUMAN SERVICES
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2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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$133,500
2022 CRIME
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2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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$57,500
2023 CRIME
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$57,500
2024 CRIME
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Related organizations
From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.
Declared on its 2024 return
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Palm Beach First Responders Foundation Inc
501(c)(3) · Retension benefits to all employees of the Town Of Palm Beach Police & Fire · FL
Declared as related by
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PALM BEACH FIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATION INC
On its 2024 return
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.