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Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin Charitable Foundation Inc

The mission of the professional fire fighters of wisconsin charitable foundation is to champion community risk reduction initiatives; promote fire safety and prevention; and deliver meaningful support to burn survivors, fire fighters and communities.

$333k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$95k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$95,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$95,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$872k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 88% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$95k0%
FY20233$114k67%
FY20227$138k57%
FY20213$41k67%
FY20202$51k0%
FY20192$43k0%
FY20182$39k50%
FY20171$6kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$257kEducation$190kPublic Safety & Disaster$72kPhilanthropy$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority$201,9605n/a
University of Wisconsin Foundation$190,00020%
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc$33,75050%
International Association of Firefighters Brookfield Local 2051$26,700219%
Local 311 Charities Inc$21,75027%
Ascension Wisconsin Foundation Inc$20,93510%
Intl Association of Firefighters Local 1440$11,400112%
Dunn County Fire Chiefs Association$11,1251n/a
Milwaukee Professional Fire Fighters Association Local No 215 Milwaukee$5,43411%
West Allis Fire Fighters Charities Inc$5,1151n/a

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.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin Charitable Foundation Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $95,000, out of $332,683 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (49%), Education (36%), Public Safety & Disaster (14%).
Who are Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority ($202k), University of Wisconsin Foundation ($190k), Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc ($34k).
Does Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin Charitable Foundation Inc is based in WI.

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 10 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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