· Public charity
National Fire Sprinkler Association Inc
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.
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 $87,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $97,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,000 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
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- CVCOMMON VOICES3× · 2018–2024 · $220k · revenue +12%
- NFNATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2020 · $35k · revenue +40%
- HBHOOSIER BURN CAMP INC2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- NFNATIONAL FIRE SPRINKLER INDUSTRY PROMOTION FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $230k · revenue +31%
- PSPHOENIX SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +28%
- SOState of Maineone grant, 2017 · $18k
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.
The Racine Firefighters Association is a part of the Racine Volunteer Fire Department.
To inform the public on fire prevention and safety.
The mission purpose for the organization is to provide workplace safety, economic security and education for the affiliate organizations in the state of Utah. The organization pays for all submitted expenses for the University of Utah Burn…
To disseminate information to the local fire fighters orgranizations within massachusetts.
To educate and inform the public on issues facing public safety in colorado springs for the purpose of improving emergency service delivery.
Enhance capabilities of Fire Training Officers in San Diego County.
Mission for burnsville vfd burnsville wv the burnsville vfd provides fire protection fire safety and emergency rescue services to the citizens in its designated area. bvfd serves in a safe efficient manner serving all stakeholders.
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 Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 NATIONAL FIRE SPRINKLER INDUSTRY PROMOTION FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMON VOICES ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HOME FIRE SPRINKLER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE KEY WEST HARRY S TRUMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CAMPUS FIRE SAFETY INC ↗
- 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: 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 organization National Fire Sprinkler Association Inc 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
- National Fallen Firefighters Foundation — 24% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% 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.