2024-03-13T20:32:56-07:00 2023-12-31 990 2023-01-01 541182145 RAPPAHANNOCK AREA LODGE 15 FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE RAPP 5408910491 PO Box 7393 Fredericksburg VA 22404 Thomas Gibson Treasurer 5408910491 2024-02-13 Thomas Gibson 999009999 1 1 11 0 AAL2 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z David Theisen PO Box 7393 Fredericksburg VA 22404 299358 0 1199 X FOPVA-LODGE15.com X 1981 VA Promote police benevolence and member support for approximately two hundred sixty active and retired police members 16 16 0 175 0 0 282697 293453 0 0 1148 1235 6140 4670 289985 299358 48880 44173 0 0 0 0 192209 168983 0 98739 68331 339828 281487 -49843 17871 453128 470999 0 0 453128 470999 Promote police benevolence and member support for approximately two hundred forty active and retired police members. Provide a meeting place and facility for members of the FOP, law enforcement personnel, and other community organizations. 0 0 COPS and KIDS This is a nationwide Fraternal Order of Police program in which Fredericksburg, VA FOP Lodge 15 participates on a local level, providing services to local needy children who are nominated by their schools, churches and community members, to provide needy children through the Cops and Kids program, the opportunity to purchase for and by the children themselves, Christmas gifts, clothing and school supplies, with funds donated specifically to the Cops and Kids program. The program is designed to build relationships between the local FOP lodge and the local police departments with the immediate communities covered by the lodge and respective police departments. Members of the FOP lodge, police officers and other volunteers take underprivileged children shopping at a local store to show those children and their families that the police in their community are friends and are always there to help. Donations to the program from the local community and businesses are used solely to fund this annual event which takes place the first Saturday in December. COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM. Program provides scholarships to children of police officers and other law enforcement personnel to students who are attending undergraduate studies at a university or college, preferably to those students who are in a law enforcement program of study. This is an annual program with scholarships being awarded each Spring for students attending school in the fall. DISTRESS FUND This fund was established to provide support and assistance for injured or deceased law enforcement officers and their families, and for those members of law enforcement or their family members who may have suffered some sort of devastating catastrophe and are in dire need of immediate assistance. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 16 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 X Rappahannock Area Lodge 15 FOP 5408910491 PO Box 7393 Fredericksburg VA 22404 X Frank Webster Director 3 X 0 0 0 Duston Sutton Board Member 3 X 0 0 0 Roger Henry Board Member 10 X 0 0 0 Michael Hamilton Board Member 2 X 0 0 0 Hector Cruz Trustee 5 X 0 0 0 Thomas Howie Trustee 2 X 0 0 0 Neil Hornung Trustee 20 X 0 0 0 Michael Montalvo Past President 2 X 0 0 0 Thomas Gibson Treasurer 20 X 0 0 0 David Theisen President 20 X 0 0 0 Joseph McBride Vice President 4 X 0 0 0 Larry Carmon Secretary 25 X 0 0 0 Craig Peters Trustee 7 X 0 0 0 Brian Wheeler Second Vice President 5 X 0 0 0 Carl Poates Sgt. at Arms 4 X 0 0 0 William Benton Jr Chaplain 3 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17814 0 0 0 275639 0 293453 0 1235 1235 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4670 0 0 0 4670 0 4670 4670 0 0 0 0 0 0 299358 5905 0 0 0 44173 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 168983 0 0 0 11618 0 0 0 0 0 15229 0 6921 0 2402 supplies 2857 utilities 6530 repairs 5304 charity fund administrative expenses 17470 281487 0 0 0 0 168328 186199 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 284800 0 284800 284800 453128 470999 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 168328 186199 284800 284800 0 0 453128 470999 453128 470999 17871 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 160000 0 160000 124800 0 0 124800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 284800 X 1 Community Support Group 766 Old York Road Jenkintown PA 19046 Rappahannock Area Lodge 15 contracted with CSG to conduct a telephone fund raiser. CSG employess made the telephone contacts and notified Lodge 15 where to pick up funds from donors. Lodge 15 controlled and deposited the funds collected and then paid CSG percentages of the collected funds per the rates in the contract. 0 264927 166338 98589 264927 166338 98589 1 Cops and Kids program. Approximately 200 needy children selected from the local community were allowed to spend up to $130 each for themselves in December 2023 for clothing, school supplies and Christmas gifts. 200 19068 0 cash Student Scholarships. Eleven college undergraduate students were awarded $1,200 scholarships each. 11 13200 0 cash Distress Fund. Four law enforcement persons were awarded emergency donations for personal disasters. 4 7000 0 cash Schedule I, Part I, Line 2 Prior to any disbursements of any grants or donations by the Rappahannock Area Lodge 15 Fraternal Order of Police to any entities or individuals, the individuals or organizations requesting grants, donations, distress aid or scholarships are required to make a formal request to Lodge 15, either by in-person presentation to the Board of Directors or at a monthly general membership meeting, or by filling out appropriate application forms or letters, which are then voted on by the Lodge 15 Board of Directors or by the general membership during the monthly general membership meeting, or by the designated lodge 15 committee for approval, which is then voted on by the general membership. Schedule I, Part III See Schedule I, Part IV, Statement 1 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Upon completion of the form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2023, a review and discussion took place in February 2024 during a general membership meeting of Lodge 15 where the Form 990 and supplemental forms were made available to lodge members for review and comment. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 FOP Lodge 15 has made its financial statements and Form 990 available to members and the public via open display and announcements at lodge meetings and through word of mouth.