· Public charity
Firefighters Support Foundation Inc
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 need and to help prevent fires and fire injuries through public awareness.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $193,661 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $256,916 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $63,255 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 · FY2017
- Under $10k15 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SW NH DISTRICT FIRE MUTUAL AID | $20,000 |
| HURRICANE CITY CORP | $16,100 |
| VALLEY REGIONAL FIRE RESCUE | $13,000 |
| REEDSBURG AREA AMBULANCE | $12,500 |
| MARION COMMUNITY FIRE DEPT | $12,395 |
| AVOCA FD | $12,300 |
| PICKAWAY-ROSS TECH CENTER | $10,500 |
| CONTRA COSTA COUNTY FPD | $8,610 |
| ROBERTSDALE VFD | $7,900 |
| DEER MOUNTAIN FPD | $7,500 |
| BUNGAY FIRE BRIGADE | $7,000 |
| PACE FIRE DISTRICT | $7,000 |
| BURLINGTON VFD | $6,800 |
| ADAMS TOWNSHIP VFD | $6,756 |
| GREENVILLE TOWNSHIP VFD | $6,700 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 93% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
Mission for burnsville vfd burnsville wv the burnsville vfd provides fire protection fire safety and emergency rescue services to the citizens in its designated area. bvfd serves in a safe efficient manner serving all stakeholders.
Volunteer Fire Department that responds to service calls to extinguish fires or help with medical emergencies in the area.
Provide fire protection, EMS first response services and fire prevention education to Franklin Township, Adams County PA and surrounding areas of PA
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Provide firefighting services for frelsburg, texas area.
The organization provides emergency, medical, and fire fighting services to the citizens in and around the Burkeville, Virginia area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bel Air Volunteer Fire Company Inc and the most unlike its peers is Burlington Volunteer Fire Department Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 22 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 VALLEY REGIONAL FIRE AND RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds AVOCA FIRE & RESCUE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds BUNGAY FIRE BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds Pace Fire Rescue District Inc ↗
- Who funds Burlington Volunteer Fire Department Inc ↗
- Who funds ADAMS TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY NO 2 ↗
- Who funds TABERNACLE FIRE COMPANY NO 1 ↗
- Who funds KEMAH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds Moscow Fire & Hose Company ↗
- Who funds BEL AIR VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds KINGSFORD UNION VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INCORPORATED ↗
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 Firefighters Support Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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