· Public charity
Last Call Foundation Inc
The mission of the last call foundation,founded to honor the memory of fallen firefighter michael ryan kennedy, is to provide funding,education and research to advance the safety needs of the firefighting community
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $123k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON SPARKS ASSOCIATION | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,688 |
| U MASS - ER MED | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| DETECTOGETHER INC | $17,500 |
| JOHNSON CITY (TN) FIRE DEPT | $17,030 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,090 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DIDETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $130k · revenue +29%
- BSBOSTON SPARKS ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2018–2024 · $107k · revenue +82% · 34% of their budget
- PFPROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS2× · 2019–2020 · $84k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- BFBOSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT CITY OF BOSTONone grant, 2017 · $226k
- FFFDNY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $110k · revenue +8%
- TUTUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENGINEERINGone grant, 2020 · $78k
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.
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.
Labor organization to organize all paid professional fire fightes within Brookline
To provide medical and fire protection services the mission of the organization is to minimize the loss of life and property resulting from fires, vehicle accidents, medical emergencies,
The Racine Firefighters Association is a part of the Racine Volunteer Fire Department.
Volunteer fire deparment
Provide fire protection and emergency medical services to the citizens of the Stony Brook fire district 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
Firemen's association
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 39 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds FDNY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SPARKS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS ↗
- Who funds LAKE CARMEL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON FIREMEN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds FIREFIGHTER CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Last Call Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Last Call Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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