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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. We accomplish this mission…

$257k
Granted FY2017
22
Itemized grants FY2017
22
Organizations funded FY2017
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Itemized, FY2017
$194k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2017
$7,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$20,000
States reached, FY2017
17

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sw Nh District Fire Mutual Aid$20,0001n/a
Hurricane City Corp$16,1001n/a
Valley Regional Fire and Rescue Inc$13,00011%
Reedsburg Area Ambulance$12,5001n/a
Marion Community Fire Department$12,3951n/a
Avoca Fire & Rescue Department$12,3001n/a
Pickaway-Ross Teachers Association$10,5001n/a
Contra Costa Cnty Flood Control & Water$8,6101n/a
Robertsdale Vfd$7,9001n/a
Deer Mountain Fpd$7,5001n/a
Show all 22 grantees
All grantees of Firefighters Support Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sw Nh District Fire Mutual Aid$20,0001n/a
Hurricane City Corp$16,1001n/a
Valley Regional Fire and Rescue Inc$13,00011%
Reedsburg Area Ambulance$12,5001n/a
Marion Community Fire Department$12,3951n/a
Avoca Fire & Rescue Department$12,3001n/a
Pickaway-Ross Teachers Association$10,5001n/a
Contra Costa Cnty Flood Control & Water$8,6101n/a
Robertsdale Vfd$7,9001n/a
Deer Mountain Fpd$7,5001n/a
Pace Fire Rescue District Inc$7,00011%
Bungay Fire Brigade$7,00016%
Burlington Volunteer Fire Department Inc$6,800125%
Adams Township Volunteer Fire Company No 2$6,7561n/a
Greenville Township Vfd$6,7001n/a
Tabernacle Fire Company No 1$6,20014%
West Carteret Fire and EMS$5,5001n/a
Riverside Fire Rescue$5,5001n/a
Moscow Fire & Hose Company$5,5001n/a
Kemah Volunteer Fire Department$5,50011%
Bel Air Volunteer Fire Company Inc$5,2001n/a
Kingsford Union Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated$5,2001n/a

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.

Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation IncFL15.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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How do I get to Firefighters Support Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Firefighters Support Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Firefighters Support Foundation Inc

How much does Firefighters Support Foundation Inc give?
Firefighters Support Foundation Inc reported 22 itemized grants totaling $193,661, out of $256,916 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Firefighters Support Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (87%), Youth Development (8%), Science & Tech (5%).
Who are Firefighters Support Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Sw Nh District Fire Mutual Aid ($20k), Hurricane City Corp ($16k), Valley Regional Fire and Rescue Inc ($13k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Firefighters Support Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Firefighters Support Foundation Inc based?
Firefighters Support Foundation Inc is based in MA.

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 22 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2019) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2017, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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