A nonprofit organization that raises money for disabled officers has raised concern with local police.

Police Capt. John Dougan said that Quincy police, as well as police departments in other communities, received a warning from Somerset police about the Disabled Police Officers Assistance Foundation.

“We are asking people to use caution and look into the organization before donating,” Dougan said.

In its warning, Somerset police said the organization is a non-profit corporation that has been soliciting funds for what its literature describes as “local community officers that are struggling due to disability.”

However, latest documents filed at the state level showed that there was no contribution to any individuals, and that more than $500,000 of the $627,000 raised by the organization in 2006 went to ‘‘fundraising,” Somerset police said.

Somerset police said fundraising in the area is conducted by Kane Marketing Group of Pawtucket, R.I.

Patrick Kane, owner of the marketing group, told the Patriot Ledger Thursday that his company had been hired by the Disabled Police Officers Assistance Foundation to do fundraising and has done so.

Kane said that the Disabled Police Officers Assistance Foundation is “a legitimate organization,” but referred other questions to the foundation’s office in Niceville, Fla.

Somerset Police Chief Joseph Ferreira told The Patriot Ledger Thursday that he has spoken by telephone to Terry Morrison, president of the foundation.

“He said he has assisted many officers in Massachusetts, and when I asked him to identify one, or have one of them call me, he said it was confidential and that he would not,” Ferreira said.

Ferreira said that after speaking with Morrison, he is still cautioning people to be wary about donating to the foundation.

“I have yet to prove that any money has been used to benefit any Massachusetts police officers,” Ferreira said.

Morrison told The Patriot Ledger Thursday that a lawyer for the foundation has sent a letter to Ferreira, “to put him on notice that what he is saying is not true.”

Morrison said that Ferreira “is confused: he thinks we give money to police officers, and what we do is provide psychological counseling service to police officers, free of charge.”

Morrison said that disabled Massachusetts police officers have received counseling services from the foundation, but would not say how many.

When told that Ferreira was still urging public caution about the foundation, “I don’t think he would be satisfied unless I gave him a name, and I would never do that,” Morrison said.

“If it is one thing I am most proud of, it is strict confidentiality. I would never betray anyone, just to satisfy a chief of police who doesn’t understand what we do.”

Morrison said that he was troubled by Ferreira’s public concerns about the foundation.

“I do not expect an ‘attaboy’ or a pat on the back for everything we do, but I do not want to be misrepresented in the public,” he said.