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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.

$56k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$125kHuman Services$123kPhilanthropy$21kHealth$15kEducation$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $17,200, the rows itemized in this filing. The $55,619 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $38,419 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
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States reached
$180k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOW COUNTRY FIREFIGHTER SUPP$10,000
CHATTANOOGA FIREFIGHTER SUPP$7,200
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$231k · 8 repeat orgs$124k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +116% since the first grant, against -14% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$231k
$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+116%
-14%

Still filing today

75%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LF
    LOWCOUNTRY FIREFIGHTER SUPPORT TEAM
    4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +66%
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION
    3× · 2018–2023 · $36k · revenue +155%
  • FC
    FIREFIGHTER CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $21k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE RAY PFEIFER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $73k · revenue -44%
  • FF
    FDNY FIREFIGHTER JOHN F MCNAMARA FN
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -14%
  • LH
    LOUISIANA HEROES PROJECT
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -100%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Virginia Professional Fire Fighters
Philanthropy
2
The National First Responders Fund

The National First Responders Fund is a financial resource organization dedicated to First Responder programs and training to address awareness and recovery from work-related Post Traumatic Stress Injuries (PTSI). The NFRF is a bridge…

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Montana Firefighter Fund

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…

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4
Firefighters Helping Firefighters Inc

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…

Philanthropy
5
Boston Firemen's Relief Fund
Public Safety & Disaster
6
Minneapolis Fire Foundation
Education
7
9 11 Honor Run Foundation Inc

Provide support to first responders and their families who are in need.

Philanthropy
8
North Carolina Firefighters Fund

To advocate for firefighters health, education and well being

Education
9
Frontline Strong

Therapy services for frontline workers such as military, police officers and fire fighters. Free mental heath services.

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10
First Responder Support Team

Providing financial crisis and mental health support to local first responders - law enforcement, fire, emergency medical, dispatch, military, veterans and linemen.

Human Services
11
Terry Farrell Firefighters Fund of Georga Inc

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
The Veterans and First Responders
Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Fallen Firefighters Foundation; 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.
03the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE RAY PFEIFER FOUNDATION: $73,000 · Human ServicesTHE RAY PFEIFER FOUNDATIONFIREFIGHTER CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $20,700 · Human ServicesFIREFIGHTER CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK INCFDNY FIREFIGHTER JOHN F MCNAMARA FN: $20,000 · Human ServicesFDNY FIREFIGHTER JOHN F MCNAMARA FNLOUISIANA HEROES PROJECT: $10,000 · Human ServicesLOUISIANA HEROES PROJECTFIREFIGHTER MINISTRIES INC: $8,750 · Human ServicesFIREFIGHTER MINISTRIES INC1 SOLDIER 1 DOG 1 TEAM INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesVARIOUS: $65,218 · OtherVARIOUSKANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION: $36,130 · OtherKANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSIONNATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $19,208 · OtherNATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATIONAR FF CANCER RELIEF TRUST FUND: $15,000 · OtherAR FF CANCER RELIEF TRUST FUNDLOWCOUNTRY FIREFIGHTER SUPPORT TEAM: $40,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLOWCOUNTRY FIREFI…THE SAFETY NET OF MO: $13,500 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE SAFETY NET OF…BELIEVE 271 FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 · PhilanthropyBRYANT GLADNEY FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Education
Human Services$138,450Other$135,556Public Safety & Disaster$53,500Philanthropy$21,000Education$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE RAY PFEIFER FOUNDATION: $73,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FIREFIGHTER SUPPORT TEAM: $40,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetKANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION: $36,130 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBELIEVE 271 FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetFIREFIGHTER CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $20,700 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFDNY FIREFIGHTER JOHN F MCNAMARA FN: $20,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetNATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $19,208 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SAFETY NET OF MO: $13,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetLOUISIANA HEROES PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFIREFIGHTER MINISTRIES INC: $8,750 over 1y, 15% of budget1 SOLDIER 1 DOG 1 TEAM INC: $6,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Association of Memorial Stair Climb funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Association of Memorial Stair Climb. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • National Fallen Firefighters Foundation: 24% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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