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Fire Family Foundation

The mission of the FIRE FAMILY FOUNDATION is to provide support and financial assistance to firefighters and their families in times of need.

$174k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2024
$10k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2018 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Fire Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’22
Public Safety & DisasterRecreation & Sports
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$10k100%
FY20222$19k100%
FY20201$8k100%
FY20191$33k100%
FY20181$9kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$70kRecreation & Sports$8k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Indy Public Safety Foundation$32,55514%
Next Rung Inc$10,00016%
Firefighter Psychology Association$10,0001n/a
Ventura Fire Foundation Inc$9,25016%
Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation$8,50010%
Los Gatos Rowing Club$8,20011%

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Fire Family Foundation

How much does Fire Family Foundation give?
Fire Family Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $10,000, out of $174,426 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.
What does Fire Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (90%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
Who are Fire Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Indy Public Safety Foundation ($33k), Next Rung Inc ($10k), Firefighter Psychology Association ($10k).
Does Fire Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fire Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Fire Family Foundation based?
Fire Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 6 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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