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National Fire Sprinkler Industry Promotion Fund

To foster and promote the recognition of the fire sprinkler industry as a unique identity in itself by conducting programs to educate local officials (e.g., fire marshalls, building officials, plumbing inspectors, etc.) to increase awareness of latest sprinkler technology available and to protect against improper installations.

$187k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
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$632kHealth$55kPhilanthropy$15kEducation$7k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $168,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $187,342 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,342 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMON VOICES$100,000
NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION$50,000
CENTER FOR CAMPUS FIRE SAFETY$10,000
FMBA FOUNDATION$8,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WAYMAN FIRE PROTECTION INC: $13k → 10%HOME FIRE SPRINKLER COALITION: $50k → 7%CENTER FOR CAMPUS FIRE SAFETY: $10k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF FIRE SERVICES: $7k → 8%PENNSYLANIA FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES INSTITUTE: $10k → 12%THE PHOENIX SOCIETY INC: $27k → 11%COMMON VOICES: $100k → 9%FMBA FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%THE BURN CENTER AT COOPERMAN BARNABAS: $7k → 16%CONGRESSIONAL FIRE SERVICE INSTITUTE: $30k → 7%NATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%NATIONAL FIRE SPRINKLER ASSOCIATION INC: $45k → 6%NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION: $50k → 7%CENTER FOR CAMPUS FIRE SAFETY: $10k → 8%PHOENIX SOCIETY FOR BURN SURVIVORS: $20k → 11%COMMON VOICES: $100k → 9%NJ FMBA FOUNDATION INC: $7k → 10%CONGRESSIONAL FIRE SERVICE INSTITUTE: $25k → 7%HOME FIRE SPRINKLER COALITION: $50k → 7%COMMON VOICES: $75k → 9%NJ FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION: $7k → 10%HOME FIRE SPRINKLER COALITION: $25k → 7%HOME FIRE SPRINKLER COALITION: $13k → 7%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
MA
PA
NJ
VA
MD
DE
TN
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$608k · 6 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$608k
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+24%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Public Safety & DisasterEducationHealthOther
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

  • CV
    COMMON VOICES
    3× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +12% · 55% of their budget
  • HF
    HOME FIRE SPRINKLER COALITION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $188k · revenue +13%
  • NS
    NJ STATE FMBA FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • NF
    NATIONAL FIRE SPRINKLER ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue +24%
  • NF
    NATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +60%
  • WF
    WAYMAN FIRE PROTECTION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $13k
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 Historical Fire Foundation
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2
Racine Firefighters Association

The Racine Firefighters Association is a part of the Racine Volunteer Fire Department.

Public Benefit
3
Massachusetts Corps of Fire Chaplains
Public Safety & Disaster
4
Firefighters for a Safer Colorado Springs

To educate and inform the public on issues facing public safety in colorado springs for the purpose of improving emergency service delivery.

—
5
Fire
Human Services
6
Professional Fire Fighters of Massachusetts

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

—
7
Florida Fire Marshals & Inspectors Association Inc

To inform the public on fire prevention and safety.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Brookline Fire Fighters Association

Labor organization to organize all paid professional fire fightes within Brookline

—
9
Trenton Firefighters Association
Public Benefit
10
Unite Nationwide for Cops Under Fire Foundation Aka Uncuff the Innocent
Crime & Legal
11
New Jersey Deputy Fire Chiefs Association

Organization was established to discuss and research the best methods to extinguish fires, protect life and property, and to discuss past and present trends of the fire service

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Boston Firemen's Relief Fund
Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition Inc; the most unlike its peers is Saint Barnabas Medical Center. 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMON VOICES: $275,000 · OtherCOMMON VOICESCONGRESSIONAL FIRE SERVICES: $55,000 · OtherCONGRESSIONAL FIRE SERVICESPHOENIX SOCIETY INC: $47,351 · OtherPHOENIX SOCIETY INCNATIONAL FIRE SPRINKLER ASSOCIATION INC: $45,000 · OtherNATIONAL FIRE SPRINKLER ASSOCIATION INCNATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Other+2 more: $19,606 · OtherHOME FIRE SPRINKLER COALITION INC: $187,500 · Public Safety & DisasterHOME FIRE SPRINKLER COALITION INCTHE CENTER FOR CAMPUS FIRE SAFETY INC: $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE CENTER FOR CAMPUS FIRE SAFETY …THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE & EMERGENCY SERVICES INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNJ STATE FMBA FOUNDATION INC: $22,651 · EducationSAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER: $7,300 · Health
Other$461,957Public Safety & Disaster$217,500Education$22,651Health$7,300

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMON VOICES: $275,000 over 3y, 55% of budgetHOME FIRE SPRINKLER COALITION INC: $187,500 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL FIRE SERVICES: $55,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetPHOENIX SOCIETY INC: $47,351 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL FIRE SPRINKLER ASSOCIATION INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNJ STATE FMBA FOUNDATION INC: $22,651 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetNATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CAMPUS FIRE SAFETY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE & EMERGENCY SERVICES INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Sprinkler Industry Promotion Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Fire Sprinkler Industry Promotion Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition Inc: 87% of income from government
  • Nj State Fmba Foundation Inc: 28% of income from government
  • National Fallen Firefighters Foundation: 24% of income from government
  • National Fire Sprinkler Association Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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