CASTRO COMMUNITY ON PATROL, INCORPORATED
Castro Community On Patrol, Incorporated (Castro Patrol / CCOP) is a California registered, Federal IRS 501(c)(3) approved nonprofit corporation.
CCOP was initially created in 2006 following a series of well publicized sexual batteries of gay men in the neighborhood. The leather community galvanized and held a community meeting at Joe’s Barber Shop, then located on 19th Street in the Castro, to formulate a response and a volunteer walking safety patrol was established. CCOP was initially formed as a program under the nonprofit San Francisco Safety Awareness For Everyone (SF-SAFE) which acted as our fiscal sponsor. This fiscal sponsorship relationship lasted from 2006 until SAFE was disbanded in early 2023 as the result of fraudulent use of government funding within the SAFE budget.
The dissolution of SAFE forced the CCOP program to formalize our independent program as a separate full Federal nonprofit which we completed in early 2024.
IRS 501(c)(3)
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IRS 501-c-3 Approval Letter 2024-04-17
W9
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Corporate Bylaws
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“SAFETY is a COMMUNITY EFFORT”
Castro Community On Patrol (Castro Patrol / CCOP) is a California nonprofit volunteer safety patrol and education corporation that focuses on enhancing safety and security of the Castro neighborhood in San Francisco for residents, businesses, employees, and visitors.
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Castro Community On Patrol, 584 Castro Street #731, San Francisco, CA 94114
Federal 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation Tax ID: 99-1829349
We acknowledge that we are on the ancestral lands of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Region. We honor the Indigenous peoples who have stewarded this land for generations. We recognize the ongoing connection of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe to this land. We pay respect to the elders, past, present, and emerging. We commit to supporting Indigenous rights and sovereignty. We encourage learning about the history and culture of the local tribes throughout California and the World.