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Mendocino County Fire Safe Council Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Mendocino County Fire Safe Council Inc

To inform, empower and mobilize county residents to survive and thrive in a wildfire-prone environment.

$154k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$189kEnvironment$39kReligion$8kEducation$8kHealth$8k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $112,047, the rows itemized in this filing. The $153,650 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $41,603 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 $10k7 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $56k
$9,984
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Piercy Volunteer Fire Department$13,423
Piercy Fire Safe Council$12,374
Blue Rock Road Association$10,500
Long Valley FIre Protection District$10,000
Covelo Fire Department$10,000
Westport Fire Safe Council$9,984
Hopland Fire Protection District$9,604
The Redwood Valley-Calpella Fire Dept Volunteers$7,947
Mariposa Institute$7,895
South Coast Fire Protection District$7,820
Brooktrails Township$6,500
String Creek Tartar Canyon Fire Safe Council$6,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Sonoma State University: $8k → 9%Navarro Fire Sale Council: $11k → 18%Whale Gulch Fire Safe Council: $7k → 18%Blue Rock Road Association: $11k → 18%Long Valley FIre Protection District: $10k → 18%Long Valley Fire Protection District: $9k → 18%Spy Rock Fire Safe Council: $9k → 18%The Redwood Valley-Calpella Fire Dept Volunteers: $8k → 18%Fox Rock & Woodman Creek Fire Safe Council: $8k → 18%Comptche Volunteer Fire Department: $10k → 18%Redwood Coast Fire Protection District: $8k → 18%Redwood Coast Fire Protection District: $6k → 18%Hopland Fire Protection District: $10k → 18%Anderson Valley Volunteer Fire Fighters: $6k → 18%Hopland Fire Protection District: $6k → 18%Piercy Volunteer Fire Department: $13k → 18%Piercy Fire Safe Council: $12k → 18%Golden Rule Church Association: $8k → 18%Brooktrails Township: $7k → 18%String Creek Tartar Canyon Fire Safe Council: $6k → 18%Mariposa Institute: $8k → 18%Westport Fire Safe Council: $10k → 18%String Creek Fire Safe Council: $5k → 18%Vista Del Lago Fire Safe Council: $6k → 18%Tierra Ranch Road Fire Safe Council: $9k → 18%Westport Volunteer Fire Department: $9k → 18%South Coast Fire Protection District: $8k → 18%Covelo Fire Department: $10k → 18%Hulls Valley Fire Safe Council: $8k → 18%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 field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
2/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Long Valley FIre Protection District: $19,000 · OtherLong Valley FIre Protection DistrictHOPLAND FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT: $13,997 · OtherHOPLAND FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTPIERCY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT: $13,423 · OtherPIERCY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTPiercy Fire Safe Council: $12,374 · OtherPiercy Fire Safe CouncilNavarro Fire Sale Council: $11,041 · OtherBlue Rock Road Association: $10,500 · OtherComptche Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $10,000 · OtherCovelo Fire Department: $10,000 · OtherWestport Fire Safe Council: $9,984 · OtherHOPLAND FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION CORPORATION: $9,604 · OtherTierra Ranch Road Fire Safe Council: $8,500 · OtherFox Rock & Woodman Creek Fire Safe Council: $8,000 · OtherHulls Valley Fire Safe Council: $8,000 · OtherGolden Rule Church Association: $8,000 · OtherWildwood Fire Safe Council: $7,951 · OtherTHE MARIPOSA INSTITUTE: $7,895 · OtherSouth Coast Fire Protection District: $7,820 · OtherSONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $7,535 · Other+6 more: $35,795 · Other+6 moreWestport Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $8,600 · Public Safety & DisasterREDWOOD VALLEY-CALPELLA FIRE DEPARTMENT VOLUNTEERS: $7,947 · Public Safety & DisasterEthos Environmental Inc: $8,500 · EnvironmentCOASTAL HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION: $6,675 · Environment
Other$219,419Public Safety & Disaster$16,547Environment$15,175

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

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetComptche Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWestport Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $8,600 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTHE MARIPOSA INSTITUTE: $7,895 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetCOASTAL HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION: $6,675 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetANDERSON VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 1y, 3.9% 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.

  • Who funds Comptche Volunteer Fire Department Inc ↗
  • Who funds Westport Volunteer Fire Department Inc ↗
  • Who funds Ethos Environmental Inc ↗
  • Who funds REDWOOD VALLEY-CALPELLA FIRE DEPARTMENT VOLUNTEERS ↗
  • Who funds THE MARIPOSA INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds COASTAL HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ANDERSON VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION ↗

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.

Community Foundation …California Fire Found…
Community Foundation of Mendocino CountyCA26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Mendocino County · California Fire 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 Mendocino County Fire Safe Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mendocino County Fire Safe Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
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    How do I get to Mendocino County Fire Safe Council Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Mendocino County Fire Safe Council 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 28 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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