In the past 28 years, the United States has seen a dramatic rise in police nonprofits– an emerging category of tax-exempt organizations that work with police departments to raise private dollars. Despite this spike in police nonprofits throughout the US, research has only recently begun to consider how these organizations pose problems of governance and accountability with respect to promoting private interests. This project explores the symbiotic relationship between the nonprofit industrial complex (NPIC) and the police state. By examining their board compositions and organizational outputs (e.g., services, programs, partnerships), I investigate how “police nonprofits”, or nonprofit organizations that directly or indirectly support the police, engage in practices that reinforce the carceral apparatus. I employ an abductive approach to a digital archive of police nonprofits compiled by the UChicago Justice Lab. To demonstrate cross-sectoral police influence and collaboration, I explore the police affiliations of board members who serve on multiple nonprofit boards between 2014-2019 (i.e:, former police officers who are board members). Additionally, I draw on (5/10) semi-structured interviews with police nonprofit organizations in Los Angeles City. This project bridges the literature on police with that on nonprofits, then contributes to a body of scholarship still in its infancy: police nonprofit studies.With recent activist-efforts and calls to defund/abolish the police, I hope that this project will illustrate the magnitude of the police-carceral state, allow for a political economy critique, and help us reimagine public safety.