· Public charity
SFPE Educational and Scientific Foundation
To enhance the scientific understanding of fire and its interaction with the social, natural and built environments.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 98% of SFPE Educational and Scientific Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $204,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $327,100 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $122,850 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
- $10k–50k5 grants · $152k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jensen Hughes | $52,500 |
| Fire and Risk Alliance LLC | $40,000 |
| Code Red Consultants LLC | $40,000 |
| Engineered Fire Systems Inc | $26,750 |
| Halliwell Engineering Associates LLC | $25,000 |
| Frederick Community College | $20,000 |
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 (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 69% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Grants abroad, by region — $77k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions, $39k to organizations and $38k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Research grant of $29,000 to Dr. Nils Johansson and Dr. Enrico Ronchi of Lund University for project on "The Interface between Digital Buildings and Fire Service Operations; paid 50% in 2024 and will pay remainder upon completion in 2025 · Guise MedalStudent Research Grant Student Travel Grant Student Travel Grant
Stated purpose: Scholarship of $4,000 to Bronwyn Forrest & $1,000 to her advisor, Dr. Elizabeth J. Weckman for research on human behavior in fire · Student Scholar AwardStudent Research GrantStudent Travel Grant
Stated purpose: Research Grant of $5,000 to Hafizah Muhamad Azlan for project on "Experimental study on the impact of density and moisture content on the thermal degradation kinetics of wood using thermal analysis methods" · Mowrer Global Scholar AwardStudent Research Grant
Stated purpose: Student Research Grant Student Research Grant
Stated purpose: Student Travel Grant
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
1 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. 1 of the 14 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization SFPE Educational and Scientific Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Fire Protection Research Foundation — 20% 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.