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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.

$638k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$84k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$1.9MHuman Services$257kHealth$119kPhilanthropy$112kRecreation & Sports$70kEmployment$12k
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 26 grants below total $441,770, the rows itemized in this filing. The $637,638 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $195,868 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $283k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $84k
$11,200
Median grant
2
States reached
$766k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FLORIDA CHAPTER OF THE FIREFIGHTER CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $18k → 14%INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%MARTIN COUNTY FF BENEVOLENT ASSN INC: $9k → 10%FIREFIGHTER CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK: $12k → 14%PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS PARAMEDICS BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $74k → 11%LOCAL 1826 LEROY NOTTINGHAM FIREFIGHTER PARAMEDIC BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $43k → 11%PROF FF PARAMEDICS BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $43k → 11%LOCAL 1826 LEROY NOTTINGHAM FIREFIGHTER PARAMEDIC BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $23k → 11%PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS PARAMEDICS BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $36k → 11%LOCAL 1826 LEROY NOTTINGHAM FIREFIGHTER PARAMEDIC BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $23k → 11%PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS PARAMEDICS BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $36k → 11%LOCAL 1826 LEROY NOTTINGHAM FIREFIGHTER PARAMEDIC BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $20k → 11%PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS PARAMEDICS BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $28k → 11%L1826 LNOTTINGHAM FF PARAMEDIC BENEVOLENT: $14k → 11%LOCAL 1826 LEROY NOTTINGHAM FIREFIGHTER PARAMEDIC BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $12k → 11%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.
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 28 repeat orgs$199k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
14

Total granted

$2.2M
$153k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
0%

Still filing today

64%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthRecreation & SportsEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SP
    SUNCOAST PROF FIREFIGHTERS & PARAMEDICS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $249k · revenue +44% · 54% of their budget
  • PF
    Professional Firefighters Paramedics Benevolent Fund Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $217k · revenue +89%
  • GB
    GREATER BROWARD FIREFIGHTER CHARITIES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $213k · revenue +3% · 100% of their budget

Funded once

  • IA
    INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -20%
  • FC
    FLORIDA CHAPTER OF FIREFIGHTERS CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2019 · $18k
  • LL
    Live Like Bella Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Volusia Firefighter Charities Inc

Fundraisers for Families of Firefighters who passed away

Philanthropy
2
Boston Firemen's Relief Fund
Public Safety & Disaster
3
Orlando Firefighters Benevolent Association Inc

Assist firefighters and their families in emergency situations.

Human Services
4
Virginia Professional Fire Fighters
Philanthropy
5
Islamorada Firefighters Benevolent Asso

Provide Support For Volunteer Firefighters

Membership Benefit
6
South Bend Firefighters Associationinc

Raise funds for the local firefighter union

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue Retiree Association Inc

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…

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Minneapolis Fire Foundation
Education
9
Firefighters Helping Firefighters Inc

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…

Philanthropy
10
Terry Farrell Firefighters Fund of Georga Inc

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Fort Lauderdale Firefighters Charity Inc

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…

Philanthropy
12
Firefighters Benevolent Charity of Tampa Inc

To raise funds for charitable organizations involved in furthering firefighter awareness, health and safety

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Florida Council of Firefighters Charities; 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.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 47 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
16/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUNCOAST PROF FIREFIGHTERS & PARAMEDICS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $249,356 · Public Safety & DisasterSUNCOAST PROF FIREFIGHTERS & PARAMEDICS CH…ST PETERSBURG FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND INC: $248,455 · Public Safety & DisasterST PETERSBURG FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND IN…SOUTH FLORIDA COUNCIL OF FIREFIGHTERS CHARITIES: $230,470 · Public Safety & DisasterSOUTH FLORIDA COUNCIL OF FIREFIGHTERS CHAR…ST LUCIE COUNTY FIRE FIGHTERS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC: $87,607 · Public Safety & DisasterST LUCIE COUNTY FIRE FIGHTERS BENEVOLENT A…ST JOHNS COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $45,355 · Public Safety & Disaster+6 more: $55,036 · Public Safety & Disaster+6 moreFLORIDA FIREFIGHTERS 9TH DISTRICT BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC: $102,525 · OtherFLORIDA FIREFIGHTERS 9TH…BURNOVER FOUNDATION INC: $56,316 · OtherBURNOVER FOUNDATION INCCAPE CORAL PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $56,000 · OtherCAPE CORAL PROFESSIONAL …STUART FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT INC: $43,554 · OtherSTUART FIREFIGHTERS BENE…HERNANDO FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT RELIEF FUND INC: $36,275 · OtherHERNANDO FIREFIGHTERS BE…TEMPLE TERRACE FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT INC: $33,203 · OtherTEMPLE TERRACE FIREFIGHT…THE WOW CENTER INC: $30,000 · OtherTHE WOW CENTER INCTALLAHASSEE PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION INC: $29,836 · OtherTALLAHASSEE PROFESSIONAL…LAKELAND FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC: $22,547 · OtherIAFF DISASTER RELIEF FUND: $20,000 · OtherFLORIDA CHAPTER OF FIREFIGHTERS CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $18,000 · Other+8 more: $75,130 · Other+8 moreProfessional Firefighters Paramedics Benevolent Fund Inc: $216,752 · Human ServicesProfessional Firefigh…LOCAL 1826 LEROY NOTTINGHAM FIREFIGHTER PARAMEDIC: $133,967 · Human ServicesLOCAL 1826 LEROY NOTT…POLK COFIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $45,509 · Human ServicesPOLK COFIREFIGHTERS B…FIREFIGHTER CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesFIREFIGHTER CANCER SU…INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human Services+2 more: $18,723 · Human ServicesGREATER BROWARD FIREFIGHTER CHARITIES INC: $212,983 · PhilanthropyGREATER BROWARD FI…Jacksonville Firefighters Charities Inc: $49,203 · PhilanthropyJacksonville Firef…CAPE CORAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $43,234 · PhilanthropyCAPE CORAL COMMUNI…INDIAN RIVER FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC: $34,800 · PhilanthropyINDIAN RIVER FIREF…HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY FIREFIGHTER CHARITIES INC: $26,424 · PhilanthropyHILLSBOROUGH COUNT…TAMPA FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND INC: $26,424 · PhilanthropyTAMPA FIREFIGHTERS…SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc: $70,000 · Recreation & SportsMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $37,888 · HealthLive Like Bella Inc: $15,000 · HealthPROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS OF MARION COUNTY BENEVOLENCE FUND INC: $26,827 · Employment
Public Safety & Disaster$916,279Other$523,386Human Services$469,951Philanthropy$393,068Recreation & Sports$70,000Health$52,888Employment$26,827

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSUNCOAST PROF FIREFIGHTERS & PARAMEDICS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $249,356 over 6y, 54% of budgetST PETERSBURG FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND INC: $248,455 over 6y, 98% of budgetProfessional Firefighters Paramedics Benevolent Fund Inc: $216,752 over 5y, 20% of budgetGREATER BROWARD FIREFIGHTER CHARITIES INC: $212,983 over 5y, 100% of budgetLOCAL 1826 LEROY NOTTINGHAM FIREFIGHTER PARAMEDIC: $133,967 over 6y, 63% of budgetST LUCIE COUNTY FIRE FIGHTERS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC: $87,607 over 6y, 24% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc: $70,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJacksonville Firefighters Charities Inc: $49,203 over 5y, 27% of budgetPOLK COFIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $45,509 over 5y, 86% of budgetST JOHNS COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $45,355 over 4y, 13% of budgetCAPE CORAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $43,234 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $37,888 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN RIVER FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC: $34,800 over 5y, 21% of budgetTHE WOW CENTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFIREFIGHTER CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $30,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetPROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS OF MARION COUNTY BENEVOLENCE FUND INC: $26,827 over 3y, 12% of budgetHILLSBOROUGH COUNTY FIREFIGHTER CHARITIES INC: $26,424 over 4y, 39% of budgetTAMPA FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND INC: $26,424 over 4y, 16% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLive Like Bella Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFLORIDA FIRE CHIEFS' FOUNDATION INC: $10,190 over 1y, 29% of budgetBONITA SPRINGS PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSEMINOLE COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetFIREFIGHTER CHARITY ALLIANCE OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $7,605 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetPALM COAST FIREFIGHTER BENEVOLENT FUND: $6,830 over 1y, 27% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF TALLAHASSEE INC: $5,500 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodAmazonsmile Foundation
Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC3.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    19get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Florida Firefighters Charities Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Florida Firefighters Charities Trust 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 47 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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