· Public charity
Florida Firefighters Charities Trust
Provide fire prevention education to the general public and humanitarian aid to those who are victims of natural or manmade disasters.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 26 grants below total $441,770 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $637,638 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $195,868 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $283k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $84k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| S FL COUNCIL OF FIRE FIGHTERS CHARITIES | $83,857 |
| PROF FF PARAMEDICS BENEVOLENT FUND INC | $42,654 |
| ST PETERSBURG FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND | $41,337 |
| SUNCOAST PROF FF & PARAMEDICS CHARITABLE | $36,900 |
| IAFF DISASTER RELIEF FUND | $20,000 |
| FLORIDA FIREFIGHTERS 9TH DIST BENEVOLENT | $16,525 |
| ST LUCIE COUNTY FIRE FIGHTERS BENEVOLENT | $15,900 |
| CAPE CORAL PROFESSIONAL FF BENEVOLENT | $15,500 |
| THE WOW CENTER | $15,000 |
| L1826 LNOTTINGHAM FF PARAMEDIC BENEVOLENT | $14,042 |
| PROF FF OF MARION CO BENEVOLENCE FUND | $11,921 |
| BURNOVER FOUNDATION INC | $11,268 |
| 2ND ALARM PROJECT INC | $11,200 |
| TALLAHASSEE PROF FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION | $10,600 |
| JACKSONVILLE FIREFIGHTERS CHARITIES INC | $10,511 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $414k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SPSUNCOAST PROF FIREFIGHTERS & PARAMEDICS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $249k · revenue +44% · 54% of their budget
- PFProfessional Firefighters Paramedics Benevolent Fund Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $217k · revenue +89%
- GBGREATER BROWARD FIREFIGHTER CHARITIES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $213k · revenue +3% · 100% of their budget
Funded once
- IAINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -20%
- FCFLORIDA CHAPTER OF FIREFIGHTERS CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK INCone grant, 2019 · $18k
- LLLive Like Bella Incone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Fundraisers for Families of Firefighters who passed away
Assist firefighters and their families in emergency situations.
Provide Support For Volunteer Firefighters
Raise funds for the local firefighter union
The retiree association provides fellowship and informational exchange for all our members and all retired firefighters within Palm Beach County. In addition the organization provides support to those retired and active firefighters in…
To provide aid and assistance to our Uniformed Heroes and their families in an effort to offset the many unforeseen dally burdens and associated financial obligations during their time of need including injury, disaster loss or death. In…
The Terry Farrell Firefighters Fund was established in his memory, to assist firefighters and families with financial, education, and medical support and to provide equipment to fire departments in need.
The mission of fort lauderdale firefighters charity,a 501(c)(3) organization, is to enhance the well-being of our community by uniting the compassionate efforts of fort lauderdale's firerighting professionals. committed to service beyond…
To raise funds for charitable organizations involved in furthering firefighter awareness, health and safety
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Florida Council of Firefighters Charities and the most unlike its peers is Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 16% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 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. 30 of the 47 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 SUNCOAST PROF FIREFIGHTERS & PARAMEDICS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST PETERSBURG FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA COUNCIL OF FIREFIGHTERS CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds Professional Firefighters Paramedics Benevolent Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER BROWARD FIREFIGHTER CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL 1826 LEROY NOTTINGHAM FIREFIGHTER PARAMEDIC ↗
- Who funds ST LUCIE COUNTY FIRE FIGHTERS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc ↗
- Who funds Jacksonville Firefighters Charities Inc ↗
- Who funds POLK COFIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHNS COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE CORAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIREFIGHTER CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS OF MARION COUNTY BENEVOLENCE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY FIREFIGHTER CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Live Like Bella Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA FIRE CHIEFS' FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BONITA SPRINGS PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SEMINOLE COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Martin County Firefighters Benevolent Association Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · 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 organization Florida Firefighters Charities Trust 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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