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NATIONAL FIRE SPRINKLER ASSOCIATION
Promote, defend, & improve the industry of manufacturing and installation of automatic sprinkler devices and to foster and promote the recognition of the industry as a unique identity in itself to conduct such programs and projects as are in keeping with these objectives.
$97k
Granted FY2024
4
Grants
4
Communities
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of NATIONAL FIRE SPRINKLER ASSOCIATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
advocatesadvocacyvisionstories
2019
officialsadvocatesvisionadvocacystories
2020
political
2021
political
2022
political
2023
burn injury
2024
advocatesvisionstoriesburn
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
- SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$35,000
- THE KEY WEST HARRY S TRUMAN FOUNDATION$25,000
- COMMON VOICES$20,000
- HOOSIER BURN CAMP INC$7,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 55% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$648k · 7 repeat orgs$332k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
7
5
Total granted
$648k
$307k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+24%
+17%
Still filing today
86%
60%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Public Safety & DisasterHealthArts & CultureOther
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
- CVCOMMON VOICES3× · 2018–2024 · $220k · revenue +12%
- NFNATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2020 · $35k · revenue +58%
- CFCAMPUS FIRE SAFETY2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- NFNATIONAL FIRE SPRINKLER INDUSTRY PROMOTIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $230k · revenue +49%
- PSPHOENIX SOCIETY FOR BURN SURVIVORSone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue -1%
- SOSTATE OF MAINE OFFFICE OF THE STATE FIRE MARSHALone grant, 2017 · $18k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
National Historical Fire Foundation
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2
Firefighters for Healing
Support burn and trauma survivors through direct emotional and financial support.
Philanthropy
3
Firefighters Quest for Burn Survivors
Firefighters Quest For Burn Survivors is dedicated to assist people affected by burn injuries. The organization provides funding and education to burn centers, burn foundations, and burn survivors and their families.
Philanthropy
4
Int'l Assoc of Arson Investigators
Research, education, training, and professional development within the science of fire investigation
Education
5
Florida Fire Marshals & Inspectors
To inform the public on fire prevention and safety.
Public Safety & Disaster
6
Georgia Firefighters Burn
To partner with the fire service and burn care community to provide fire safety and prevention education, support medical facilities, and assist burn survivors in their recovery.
Public Safety & Disaster
7
Boston Firefighters Burn Fnd Inc
Assisting burn victims and their families.
Health
8
Fire
Human Services
9
Smokestown Fire Company No 1
Fire fighting / fire prevention
Public Safety & Disaster
10
Virginia Professional Fire Fighters
Philanthropy
11
Washington State Council of Fire
Assisting burn survivors and their families, and promoting burn awareness and prevention.
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12
United Phoenix Fire Fighters
To protect and improve the quality of life in our communities through (see schedule o) community partnerships, community service programs and life safety education.
Public Safety & Disaster
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Key West Harry S Truman. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$701,890Health$135,200Public Safety & Disaster$117,500Arts & Culture$25,000
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 NATIONAL FIRE SPRINKLER INDUSTRY PROMOTION ↗
- Who funds COMMON VOICES ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HOME FIRE SPRINKLER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SOCIETY FOR BURN SURVIVORS ↗
- Who funds THE KEY WEST HARRY S TRUMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMPUS FIRE SAFETY ↗
- Who funds HOOSIER BURN CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
National Fire Sprinkler IndustryMD16× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: National Fire Sprinkler Industry · National Fire Protection Association · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation NATIONAL FIRE SPRINKLER 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition Inc — 87% of income from government
- National Fallen Firefighters Foundation — 24% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HOME FIRE SPRINKLER COALITION INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~4 months of operating runway; revenue held over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 510620405 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on HOME FIRE SPRINKLER COALITION INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 12% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to National Fire Sprinkler Association through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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State money flows
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