· Public charity
California Fire Safe Council Inc
To lead california communities in wildfire risk reduction and resiliency.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k42 grants · $5.6M
- $250k+19 grants · $7.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPATIAL INFORMATICS GROUP- NATURAL ASSETS LABORATORY | $958,373 |
| CENTRAL VENTURA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL | $583,722 |
| COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT | $525,000 |
| SAN MATEO COUNTY | $505,000 |
| LASSEN COUNTY FSC | $494,219 |
| COUNTY OF MADERA | $460,488 |
| LAKE COUNTY RCD | $445,269 |
| COUNTY OF TUOLUMNE | $425,866 |
| EL DORADO COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL | $381,625 |
| COUNTY OF SOLANO | $345,000 |
| MOUNTAIN RIM FSC | $344,607 |
| RCDG SAN DIEGO | $337,500 |
| SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL | $331,863 |
| SANTA BARBARA COUNTY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT | $331,067 |
| COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ | $325,427 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $321k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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 +89% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
93 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M 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
- SISpatial Informatics Group Natural Assets Laboratory SIG-NAL3× · 2022–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +12% · 50% of their budget
- TNTHE NAPA COMMUNITIES FIREWISE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue ×19
- BCButte County Fire Safe Council5× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue ×20 · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- SISIGNAL(SPATIAL INFROMATICS GROUP -NATIONAL ASSETS LAB)one grant, 2021 · $626k
- SBSANTA BARBARA COUNTY FIRE DEPTone grant, 2021 · $150k
- NCNORTHERN CALIFORNIA RESOURCE CENTERone grant, 2017 · $136k · revenue +23%
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.
Promote fire safety in Mariposa County through educating home owners about clearing PRC Section 4291 defensible space, coordinating efforts with various agencies to clear PRC Section 4291 defensible space, etc. Obtain/administer/manage…
Promote fire safety by providing information, education, support incentives and projects that encourage fire safety in a service area in eastern Fresno and Tulare counties.
To provide education, assistance and outreach programs for Fire Prevention and preparedness to all South Skyline Residents within the council area in order to prevent the loss of lives and reduce losses of personal and public property and…
Fire prevention and safety
The mission is to bring resources to the coastal hills community to create a healthier and safer forest where all residents flourish.
Rangeland Fire Protection
Fire suppression, rescue and emergency medical first responders in this remote, rural coastal area. sonoma county service area #25.
Fire suppression and pre-suppression
Save lives, protect property and the environment, and serve the community by: educating the public on defensible space, creating and maintaining fuel breaks around homes, and provide chipper service to homeowners in high risk areas
The mission is to reduce the fuel load in the side of palomar mountain and within reach of residential neighborhoods on top of the mountain and to enhance the ability of firefighting organizations to gain control by clearing brush and dead…
Wildfire mitigation and preparation
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Ventura County Fire Safe Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pacific Union College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
71 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. 71 of the 157 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 Spatial Informatics Group Natural Assets Laboratory SIG-NAL ↗
- Who funds THE NAPA COMMUNITIES FIREWISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Butte County Fire Safe Council ↗
- Who funds El Dorado County Fire Safe Council ↗
- Who funds SANTA CLARA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL VENTURA COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council ↗
- Who funds LASSEN FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MENDOCINO COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain Rim Fire Safe Council Inc ↗
- Who funds MODOC FIRE SAFE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY COMMUNITY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Amador Fire Safe Council ↗
- Who funds FIRE SAFE COUNCIL OF NEVADA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MID KLAMATH WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FIRE SAFE SONOMA ↗
- Who funds OJAI VALLEY FIRESAFE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds DEL NORTE FIRE SAFE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE WATERSHED RESEARCH & TRAINING CENTER ↗
- Who funds FIRE SAFE COUNCIL OF SISKIYOU COUNTY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: California Fire Foundation · Public Health Institute · Coalitions & Collaboratives Inc · Foundation for California Community Colleges · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Essential Access Health · California Cupa Forum · Myriad Consulting and Training Inc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · California Air Pollution Control Officers Association · California Humanities · Mattress Recycling Council Inc
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 California Fire Safe Council Inc 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 Fire Protection Association — 1% 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.