· Public charity
Association of Memorial Stair Climb
The association's purpose is to ensure the success and sustainability of our climbs by providing events with comprehensive administrative support and identification and implementation of best practices in both event planning and operations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $17,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $55,619 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $38,419 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOW COUNTRY FIREFIGHTER SUPP | $10,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA FIREFIGHTER SUPP | $7,200 |
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +116% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- LFLOWCOUNTRY FIREFIGHTER SUPPORT TEAM4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +66%
- KCKANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION3× · 2018–2023 · $36k · revenue +155%
- FCFIREFIGHTER CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK INC3× · 2021–2024 · $21k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- TRTHE RAY PFEIFER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $73k · revenue -44%
- FFFDNY FIREFIGHTER JOHN F MCNAMARA FNone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -14%
- LHLOUISIANA HEROES PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -100%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Support for families of officers lost
Therapy services for frontline workers such as military, police officers and fire fighters. Free mental heath services.
The Montana Firefighter Fund is dedicated to supporting and honoring firefighters who risk their lives every day in the line of duty. The Fund aims to build a stronger fire service community by providing firefighters with opportunities for…
Assist Law Enforcement Officers
Provide support to first responders and their families who are in need.
To provide aid and assistance to our Uniformed Heroes and their families in an effort to offset the many unforeseen dally burdens and associated financial obligations during their time of need including injury, disaster loss or death. In…
The exempt purpose of the firefighters support foundation is to assist firefighter and rescue personnel perform their jobs effectively and safely, aid underfunded agencies, assist families of fallen firefighters in their greatest time of…
The Terry Farrell Firefighters Fund was established in his memory, to assist firefighters and families with financial, education, and medical support and to provide equipment to fire departments in need.
Metal4valor seeks to honor the emergency first responders who have made the ultimate sacrifice by posthumously awarding the family of the fallen first responder a crafted metal replica of their service badge as a living memorial of their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Louisiana Heroes Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE RAY PFEIFER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FIREFIGHTER SUPPORT TEAM ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE 271 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIREFIGHTER CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FDNY FIREFIGHTER JOHN F MCNAMARA FN ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAFETY NET OF MO ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA HEROES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FIREFIGHTER MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BRYANT GLADNEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 1 SOLDIER 1 DOG 1 TEAM INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Association of Memorial Stair Climb funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- National Fallen Firefighters Foundation — 24% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.