As per my "Nuisance Call" notes of Dec 2016:

Calling #: 607 366-3006; Caller ID: "Lansing ... "; Call Date: 16 Dec '16

Thinking that the call was from Lansing *MI*, where we have a relative in hospice care, I picked up during the call, & after a delay & then what sounded like a phone-fumble & pick-up scramble, I was told: "Hello, I’m Joe, and I’m calling for the Police Conference of NY ...."

After terminating the call, I looked up: "Police Conference of New York" & found: "Police Conference of New York, Inc" (which gave the ph. # 518 463-3283). This site, <PCNY.org> claims:
" PCNY now represents over 200 PBA's plus 8 regional conferences and one retired police association with a total of 25,000 police officers throughout the State. "

I next looked up: "Police Conference of New York, Inc" on <CharityNavigator.org> & found that :
" This organization [namely, "Police Conference of New York, Inc"] is not eligible to be rated by Charity Navigator because it does not meet our required tax status of being a 501(c) (3) public charity (see the IRS website to learn about the different classifications of nonprofits). Visit the Methodology section of our site to learn about our criteria for evaluating charities. "

Charity Navigator then both asks & answers:
" What does it mean, that this organization isn’t rated?  "
" It simply means that the organization doesn't meet our [Charity Navigator's] criteria. A lack of a rating does not indicate a positive or negative assessment by Charity Navigator. "

" *We [Charity Navigator] don't rate charities that have less than $1 million in revenue (only about 4% of all donations to the nonprofit sector each year go to charities of that smaller scale) and we are not able to rate charities that haven't been in existence for at least 4 years. Visit the Methodology section of our site to learn more about our criteria for selecting charities to rate. "

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While "Police Conference of New York, Inc" may be legitimately registered, you may *perhaps* still be able to find the Consumer Reports article, "Don't donate blindly to police and fire groups: Professional fundraisers often get the bulk of the donations" (originally published 13 Nov 2014 @ 05:00 PM ET).

[Note: today (10 May '17) when I went to the web address: <ConsumerReports.org/cro/news/2014/11/don-t-donate-blindly-to-police-and-fire-groups/index.htm>, instead of CR's 2014 article, "Don't donate blindly to police and fire groups ... ", I instead found a CR Dec 2016 piece, titled "Best Charities for Your Donations: A charity's name is not enough for you to decide whether to make a donation", by Anthony Giorgianni. So if you go to the old web address, you may get an automatic redirect to CR's most recent piece re charitable giving to apparently good causes, and having the greatest part of your donation go to the professional fundraisers.

But here are excerpts from CR's 2014 article, "Don't donate blindly to police and fire groups: Professional fundraisers often get the bulk of the donations":

[CR:] You get a phone call or letter asking you to donate money to benefit police or firefighters. Who wouldn’t want to help?
But would you give if you knew that 85 cents of every dollar or more would go to the professional fundraising company that contacted you?

A lot of ... fundraising requests ..., including many of those on behalf of police and fire groups, often end up benefiting fundraising firms far more than the nonprofit organizations they represent.

[BBB as quoted within the CR's article:] "People hear the words 'police' or 'fire' and they assume, sometimes wrongly, that someone on their local force is going to be helped", said Bennett Weiner, who runs the BBB [Better Business Bureau] Wise Giving Alliance, a charity watchdog.

[CR continues:] "Consider two police-related fundraising calls a Consumer Reports employee recently received at home. One was on behalf of the Police Conference of New York, which the group’s website says 'is recognized by key state elected officials and agency department heads as the preeminent professional police union in New York State'. When questioned, the fundraiser told the staff member that "not less than 15 percent" of the donations would go to the group, as opposed to the fundraiser.

[Still CR:] In the second call, on behalf of the New York State Association of PBAs, the fundraiser revealed that "not less than 10 percent" of the money would go to the group, an organization of public safety unions that does business as the 'New York State Police Association'.

In their IRS filings, neither group reported providing any grants or other direct assistance to individuals, such as injured police officers or their families. Also, donations to the groups aren’t tax deductible."

[CR adds:] "For more advice, read 'Make Sure Your Donation Counts'."

[CR continues with more info under the header:] "Fundraisers take the biggest share", before their section, "What to do".

But even if you don't find the aforementioned pieces, perhaps the excerpts are enough to indicate how very little of a donation a good cause may get, when they cannot undertake their own fund-raising.

~ Hope that helps ....