How much does California Fire Safe Council Inc give?

California Fire Safe Council Inc reported 69 grants totaling $13,700,578 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 63 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does California Fire Safe Council Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (93%), Environment (7%).

Who are California Fire Safe Council Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Spatial Informatics Group Natural Assets Laboratory SIG-NAL ($2.1M), The Napa Communities Firewise Foundation ($1.6M), Butte County Fire Safe Council ($1.4M).

Does California Fire Safe Council Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as California Fire Safe Council Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Fire Foundation, Public Health Institute, Coalitions & Collaboratives Inc.

Where is California Fire Safe Council Inc based?

California Fire Safe Council Inc is based in CA.

California Fire Safe Council Inc

California Fire Safe Council Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

California Fire Safe Council Inc

To lead california communities in wildfire risk reduction and resiliency.

$14M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$958k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% 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$39MEnvironment$2.8M

02FY2024 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $6k
$10k–50k7 grants · $225k
$50k–250k42 grants · $5.6M
$250k+19 grants · $7.9M

$156,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$37M · 93 repeat orgs$4.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +89% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$37M

$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%

+23%

Still filing today

51%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Public Safety & DisasterEnvironmentEmploymentHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

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

SI
Spatial Informatics Group Natural Assets Laboratory SIG-NAL
3× · 2022–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +12% · 50% of their budget
TN
THE NAPA COMMUNITIES FIREWISE FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue ×19
BC
Butte County Fire Safe Council
5× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue ×20 · 27% of their budget

Funded once

SI
SIGNAL(SPATIAL INFROMATICS GROUP -NATIONAL ASSETS LAB)
one grant, 2021 · $626k
SB
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FIRE DEPT
one grant, 2021 · $150k
NC
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA RESOURCE CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $136k · revenue +23%

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.

04Its 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.

Mariposa Fire Safe Council Inc

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…

Public Safety & Disaster

Oak to Timberline Fire Safe Council

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.

Public Safety & Disaster

South Skyline Fire Safe Council

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…

Public Safety & Disaster

Ramona Volunteer Fire Department

Public Safety & Disaster

Calaveras Foothills Fire Safe Council

Fire prevention and safety

Public Safety & Disaster

Coast Ridge Community Forest

The mission is to bring resources to the coastal hills community to create a healthier and safer forest where all residents flourish.

Environment

Lookout-Glasgow Rangeland Protection Ass

Rangeland Fire Protection

Public Safety & Disaster

Timber Cove Volunteer Fire Department dba Tcv Firefighters Association

Fire suppression, rescue and emergency medical first responders in this remote, rural coastal area. sonoma county service area #25.

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Western Lane Forest Protective Association

Fire suppression and pre-suppression

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Alpine Viejas Fire Safe Council

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

Public Safety & Disaster

Palomar Mountain Fire Safe Council Foundation Dba Pmfsc

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…

Public Safety & Disaster

Fire Adapted Bailey

Wildfire mitigation and preparation

Public Safety & Disaster

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Ventura County Fire Safe Council Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 157 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

67/71

Grantees still filing

53/71

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$18,959,877Public Safety & Disaster$15,764,938Environment$4,820,831Employment$908,517Education$419,763Human Services$360,333Philanthropy$183,500Community Improvement$93,988

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

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.

California Fire FoundationCA82.1× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 California Fire Safe Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from California Fire Safe Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home