California · Public charity
San Diego Fire-Rescue Foundation
Our mission is to strengthen the department's ability to protect our community by providing enhanced equipment, training, technology, and essential public education and program resources.
- $411k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2025
- $15k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $14,830
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $14,830
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 6
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $619k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations San Diego Fire-Rescue Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $15k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $162k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $113k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $149k | 80% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $73k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $99k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $198k | 80% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $145k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| YMCA of San Diego County | $14,830 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($939k), not named here.
About San Diego Fire-Rescue Foundation
- How much does San Diego Fire-Rescue Foundation give?
- San Diego Fire-Rescue Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $14,830, out of $411,422 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does San Diego Fire-Rescue Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (43%), Community Improvement (14%), Animals (11%).
- Who are San Diego Fire-Rescue Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: YMCA of San Diego County ($15k).
- Does San Diego Fire-Rescue Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is San Diego Fire-Rescue Foundation based?
- San Diego Fire-Rescue Foundation is based in CA.
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