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BOSTON POLICE FOUNDATION INC

EIN 04-3209395 WOBURN, MA

Revenue 2022
$86,533
Expenses 2022
$64,685

Program services were 84.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T123
Classification
1000
Street
500 W CUMMINGS PARK STE 3600

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 · 2022

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.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO SUPPORT ACTIVITIES OF THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT TO IMPROVE PUBLIC SAFETY

  • 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.

    Expenses $24,800

  • Wellness and Safety Program - The Foundation operates this program to provide funding for suicide prevention and other wellness initiatives for the Boston Police Officers.

  • Other programs - Funding support for various initiatives that support community policing and outreach programs to promote and advance public safety and advance the organization's goals and purpose.

    Expenses $30,000

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2022

As listed in Part VII of the 2022 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • CARL JENKINS

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NANCY RENO

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KEVIN CLOHERTY

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ARTHUR S DEMOULAS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROBERT GUTTENTAG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BLAKE NORTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KEVIN J CLOHERTY ESQ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CRAIG LEVEY ESQ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOHN HAILER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROBERT LEWIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DANIEL LINSKEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANNE BRESNAHAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DON JONES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2022
    Revenue
    $86,533
    Expenses
    $64,685
    Contributions
    $86,533
    Grants paid
    $0

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $97,524
    Expenses
    $104,775
    Assets (EOY)
    $37,606

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $155,517
    Expenses
    $145,328
    Assets (EOY)
    $44,857

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $189,648
    Expenses
    $217,357
    Assets (EOY)
    $34,668

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $220,258
    Expenses
    $315,929
    Assets (EOY)
    $62,377

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $319,223
    Expenses
    $413,642
    Assets (EOY)
    $158,048

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $319,223
    Expenses
    $413,642
    Assets (EOY)
    $158,048

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $149,516
    Expenses
    $565,780
    Assets (EOY)
    $252,467

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $133,861
    Expenses
    $659,774
    Assets (EOY)
    $668,731

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,261,729
    Expenses
    $597,125
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,210,311

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $827,199
    Expenses
    $424,864
    Assets (EOY)
    $542,715

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2022, the newest we have parsed for this organization.