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FIREFIGHTERS SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC
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.
$257k
Granted FY2017
22
Grants
17
Communities
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 22 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k15 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $97k
$7,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- 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
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 8%. 93% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
1
Burnsville Volunteer Fire Department
Burnsville vfd provides fire protection, safty, and rescue service
Public Safety & Disaster
2
Campbelltown Volunteer Fire Company
Provide fire protection services
Public Safety & Disaster
3
Verona Volunteer Fire Department
Volunteer Fire Department
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4
Valley View Volunteer Fire Department
Volunteer Fire Department that responds to service calls to extinguish fires or help with medical emergencies in the area.
Public Safety & Disaster
5
Taylor Township Volunteer Fire Department
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6
Buchanan Valley Volunteer Fire Dept Inc
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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7
Villas Volunteer Fire Company Inc
For the safety of life and property and public education
Public Safety & Disaster
8
Knifley Area Volunteer Fire
Public Safety & Disaster
9
Ottawa Volunteer Fire Department
The purpose of the ottawa volunteer firefighters association will be to fundraise and collect funds through donations, grants and bequest and to administer these funds within the ottawa volunteer firefighters association for the benefit of…
Recreation & Sports
10
Robertsville Volunteer Fire Co 1
Firefighting,protection and education services to the community
Public Safety & Disaster
11
Bethlehem Volunteer Fire Department Inc
Volunteer Fire Dept
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12
Hagaman Volunteer Fire Department
To provide fire protection for the residents of the town of amsterdam and village of hagaman in upstate new york.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Regional Fire and Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is Adams Township Volunteer Fire Company No 2. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$154,805Public Safety & Disaster$38,856
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.
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.
Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation IncFL15.9× 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
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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BURLINGTON VFD.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 8.7× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 521736392 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on BURLINGTON VFD, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 25% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Firefighters Support Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Firefighters Support Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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