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National Fire Protection Association

Advocate for the elimination of death, injury, property and economic loss due to fire, electrical and related hazards.

$431k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$134k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$3.1MHealth$275kEducation$229kArts & Culture$200kRecreation & Sports$133kScience & Tech$20kCommunity Improvement$7k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $173,600, the rows itemized in this filing. The $430,828 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $257,228 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

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $134k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$479M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOME FIRE SPRINKLER COALITION$133,600
NATIONAL VOLUNTEER FIRE COUNCIL$20,000
ELECTRICAL SAFETY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL$10,000
NATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS$10,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%IAFF: $20k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DC
OK
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 13 repeat orgs$174k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
10

Total granted

$3.9M
$174k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+7%

Still filing today

85%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public Safety & DisasterEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TF
    THE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +59%
  • OS
    Oklahoma State University Foundation
    4× · 2017–2020 · $149k · revenue +46%
  • NV
    National Volunteer Fire Council Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $149k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • KI
    KINDLING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +942% · 60% of their budget
  • NI
    NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SCIENCESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +65%
  • RR
    RISE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
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
National Fire Protection Association

Advocate for the elimination of death, injury, property and economic loss due to fire, electrical and related hazards.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Firefighters Research and Education

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…

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3
Society of Fire Protection Engineers Inc

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.

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4
National Historical Fire Foundation
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5
National Association of State Fire Marshals Inc

Fire safety, prevention, and education.

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6
International Assoc of Firefighters Local 854

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…

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7
Fire
Human Services
8
Firefighters United for Safety Ethics and Ecology

Fusee engages in public education and policy advocacy promoting safe, ethical, ecological wildland fire management.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Fire Family Foundation

The mission of the fire family foundation is to provide support and financial assistance to firefighters and their families in times of need.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Professional Fire Fighters of Massachusetts

To disseminate information to the local fire fighters orgranizations within massachusetts.

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11
International Association of Fire L0734 Baltimore

Represent members and local firefighters union.

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12
International Association of Fire Fighters

To organize all fire fighters and emergency medical or rescue workers to: secure just compensation; promote a safe, healthy and harmonious work environment; promote research and training; encourage the formation of unions; cultivate…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Association of Fire Chiefs Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 23 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,555,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATIONHOME FIRE SPRINKLER COALITION INC: $1,202,600 · Public Safety & DisasterHOME FIRE SPRINKLER COALITION INC+8 more: $212,500 · Public Safety & Disaster+8 morePHOENIX SOCIETY INC: $275,000 · OtherPHOENIX SOCIETY INCMERLIN ENTERTAINMENT GROUP US HOLDINGS: $200,000 · OtherMERLIN ENTERTAINMENT GR…National Volunteer Fire Council Inc: $148,500 · OtherNational Volunteer Fire…NATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherNATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIG…WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $60,000 · OtherWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC I…+5 more: $51,750 · Other+5 moreOklahoma State University Foundation: $149,161 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $133,027 · EducationINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human Services
Public Safety & Disaster$2,970,100Other$835,250Education$282,188Human Services$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,555,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetHOME FIRE SPRINKLER COALITION INC: $1,202,600 over 9y, 28% of budgetPHOENIX SOCIETY INC: $275,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation: $149,161 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNational Volunteer Fire Council Inc: $148,500 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKINDLING INC: $50,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SCIENCES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetElectrical Safety Foundation International Inc: $40,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CAMPUS FIRE SAFETY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetFDNY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLAST CALL FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSOUTH SHORE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $6,750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFLORIDA FIRE MARSHALS & INSPECTORS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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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 National Fire Protection Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Fire Protection Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 50%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 23 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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