· Public charity
National Fire Protection Association
Advocate for the elimination of death, injury, property and economic loss due to fire, electrical and related hazards.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $253,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $447,002 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $193,402 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $234k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOME FIRE SPRINKLER COALITION | $133,600 |
| THE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH | $100,000 |
| ELECTRICAL SAFETY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL VOLUNTEER FIRE COUNCIL | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +46% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TFTHE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +59%
- OSOklahoma State University Foundation4× · 2017–2020 · $149k · revenue +46%
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $133k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- NINATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SCIENCESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +65%
- KIKINDLING INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +942% · 60% of their budget
- IAINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -14%
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.
To define, develop, and advance the use of engineering best practices; expand the scientific and technical knowledge base; and educate the global fire safety community, to reduce fire risk.
To educate firefighters and the public about fire safety and the dangers of hazardous substances and infectious diseases in emergency situations; and to conduct and report scientific research and sponsor programs of public information…
Advocate for the elimination of death, injury, property and economic loss due to fire, electrical and related hazards.
To bring together persons or groups with a common interest in fire safety, burn prevention, and public education, and to promote programs and diseminate information related to fire safety and burn prevention.
The organization was established to further the interests of its membership by seeking improved terms and conditions of employment, to render moral and material aid to members as needed, to provide representation and/or counsel in legal…
Fire safety, prevention, and education.
The mission of the fire family foundation is to provide support and financial assistance to firefighters and their families in times of need.
Fusee engages in public education and policy advocacy promoting safe, ethical, ecological wildland fire management.
To disseminate information to the local fire fighters orgranizations within massachusetts.
Represent members and local firefighters union.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Association of Fire Chiefs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kindling Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 23 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 THE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOME FIRE SPRINKLER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds National Volunteer Fire Council Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds KINDLING INC ↗
- Who funds Electrical Safety Foundation International Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CAMPUS FIRE SAFETY INC ↗
- Who funds FDNY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAST CALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA FIRE MARSHALS & INSPECTORS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS 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.
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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 National Fire Protection Association 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.
- Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition Inc — 87% of income from government
- The Fire Protection Research Foundation — 50% of income from government
- National Fallen Firefighters Foundation — 24% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
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.