· Public charity
State Firemens and Fire Marshals Association Fire Programs Institute
The Institute is organized for education and charitable programs for fire fighters, their families, departments, communities and education organizations, including promotion of safety and education for the general public and other emergency service organizations.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of State Firemens and Fire Marshals Association of Texas Fire Programs Inst’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 $56,907 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $382,733 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $325,826 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 · FY2022
- Under $10k5 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOOVER VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE & EMERGENCY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,845 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,755 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY ESD #1 | $9,380 |
| CADDO MILLS FIRE & RESCUE | $8,027 |
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 (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 51% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
6 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. 6 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.
- Who funds SOUTH VAN ZANDT VOL FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST BELL COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds SOUTH POLK COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT & ACE COMMUNITY PARK INC ↗
- Who funds CHINA GROVE FIRE & RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds TRINIDAD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds LAKE PALO PINTO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization State Firemens and Fire Marshals Association Fire Programs Institute 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.
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.