· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
1 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. 1 of the 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization SFPE Educational and Scientific Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from SFPE Educational and Scientific Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Fire Protection Research Foundation: 20% of income from government
How this is measured
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