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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.

$257k
Granted FY2017
22
Grants FY2017
17
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $193,661, the rows itemized in this filing. The $256,916 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $63,255 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k15 grants · $97k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $97k
$7,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PACE FIRE DISTRICT$7,000
BUNGAY FIRE BRIGADE$7,000
BURLINGTON VFD$6,800
ADAMS TOWNSHIP VFD$6,756
GREENVILLE TOWNSHIP VFD$6,700
02The need
02

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MARION COMMUNITY FIRE DEPT: $12k → 9%MOSCOW FIRE & RESCUE: $6k → 13%VALLEY REGIONAL FIRE RESCUE: $13k → 15%ADAMS TOWNSHIP VFD: $7k → 16%CONTRA COSTA COUNTY FPD: $9k → 9%KEMAH VFD: $6k → 14%PACE FIRE DISTRICT: $7k → 9%ROBERTSDALE VFD: $8k → 12%REEDSBURG AREA AMBULANCE: $13k → 9%BURLINGTON VFD: $7k → 11%WESTERN CARTERET FIRE & EMS: $6k → 12%HURRICANE CITY CORP: $16k → 10%DEER MOUNTAIN FPD: $8k → 17%GREENVILLE TOWNSHIP VFD: $7k → 10%KINGSFORD UNION VFD: $5k → 15%PICKAWAY-ROSS TECH CENTER: $11k → 14%RIVERSIDE FIRE RESCUE: $6k → 9%TABERNACLE FIRE COMPANY #1: $6k → 7%BEL AIR VFD: $5k → 7%SW NH DISTRICT FIRE MUTUAL AID: $20k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
WI
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MD
AR
NC
AL
TX
FL
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 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.

1
Burnsville Volunteer Fire Department

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
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
3
Taylor Township Volunteer Fire Department
—
4
Knifley Area Volunteer Fire Department
Public Safety & Disaster
5
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

—
6
Bethlehem Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer Fire Dept

—
7
Kinsey Volunteer Fire Dept

Volunteer fire dept

—
8
Waring Volunteer Fire Department

Fire Protection

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Marlin Volunteer Fire Department
—
10
Borden Springs Volunteer Fire Departmant
Public Safety & Disaster
11
Frelsburg Volunteer Fire Dept

Provide firefighting services for frelsburg, texas area.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Burkeville Volunteer Fire Department

The organization provides emergency, medical, and fire fighting services to the citizens in and around the Burkeville, Virginia area.

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bel Air Volunteer Fire Company Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 22 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SW NH DISTRICT FIRE MUTUAL AID: $20,000 · OtherSW NH DISTRICT FIRE MUTUAL AIDHURRICANE CITY CORP: $16,100 · OtherHURRICANE CITY CORPREEDSBURG AREA AMBULANCE: $12,500 · OtherREEDSBURG AREA AMBULANCEMARION COMMUNITY FIRE DEPARTMENT: $12,395 · OtherMARION COMMUNITY FIRE DEPARTMENTPICKAWAY-ROSS TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $10,500 · OtherPICKAWAY-ROSS TEACHERS ASSOCIATIONCONTRA COSTA CNTY FLOOD CONTROL & WATER: $8,610 · OtherCONTRA COSTA CNTY FLOOD CONTROL & WATERROBERTSDALE VFD: $7,900 · OtherROBERTSDALE VFDDEER MOUNTAIN FPD: $7,500 · OtherPace Fire Rescue District Inc: $7,000 · OtherGREENVILLE TOWNSHIP VFD: $6,700 · OtherTABERNACLE FIRE COMPANY NO 1: $6,200 · OtherWEST CARTERET FIRE AND EMS: $5,500 · OtherRIVERSIDE FIRE RESCUE: $5,500 · OtherMoscow Fire & Hose Company: $5,500 · OtherKEMAH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $5,500 · OtherBEL AIR VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $5,200 · OtherVALLEY REGIONAL FIRE AND RESCUE INC: $13,000 · Public Safety & DisasterVALLEY REGIONAL FIRE AND RESC…AVOCA FIRE & RESCUE DEPARTMENT: $12,300 · Public Safety & DisasterAVOCA FIRE & RESCUE DEPARTMEN…BUNGAY FIRE BRIGADE: $7,000 · Public Safety & DisasterBUNGAY FIRE BRIGADEBurlington Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $6,800 · Public Safety & DisasterBurlington Volunteer Fire Dep…ADAMS TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY NO 2: $6,756 · Public Safety & DisasterADAMS TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE…KINGSFORD UNION VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INCORPORATED: $5,200 · Public Safety & DisasterKINGSFORD UNION VOLUNTEER FIR…
Other$142,605Public Safety & Disaster$51,056

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVALLEY REGIONAL FIRE AND RESCUE INC: $13,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPace Fire Rescue District Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBUNGAY FIRE BRIGADE: $7,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetBurlington Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $6,800 over 1y, 25% of budgetTABERNACLE FIRE COMPANY NO 1: $6,200 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetKEMAH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $5,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Firefighters Support Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Firefighters Support Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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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.

    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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