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State Firemens and Fire Marshals Association Fire Programs Institute at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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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.

$383k
Granted FY2022
6
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Public Safety & Disaster$67kEnvironment$9kYouth Development$8kOther$0
02FY2022 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $56,907, the rows itemized in this filing. The $382,733 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $325,826 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k5 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$9,845
Median grant
1
States reached
$96k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 51% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 14%HOOVER VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE & EMERGENCY: $10k → 9%DIXIE VFD: $10k → 12%CADDO MILLS FIRE & RESCUE: $8k → 13%TRINIDAF FIRE DEPARTMENT: $7k → 13%KOUNTZE VFD: $10k → 13%CHINA GROVE FIRE & RESUE: $7k → 16%LOCO-VALLEY VFD: $8k → 16%HARLETON FD: $10k → 16%SOUTH POLK COUNTY VFD: $8k → 19%JEFFERSON COUNTY ESD #1: $9k → 19%980 NORTH VFD: $6k → 20%SOUTH VN ZANDT VFD: $8k → 13%LAKE PALO PINTO VFD: $6k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOOVER VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE & EMERGENCY: $10,000 · OtherHOOVER VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE & EMERGENCYIndividual grant recipient: $9,900 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $9,845 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $9,755 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJEFFERSON COUNTY ESD #1: $9,380 · OtherJEFFERSON COUNTY ESD #1CADDO MILLS FIRE & RESCUE: $8,027 · OtherCADDO MILLS FIRE & RESCUESOUTH VAN ZANDT VOL FIRE DEPT INC: $7,500 · OtherSOUTH VAN ZANDT VOL FIRE DEPT INCLOCO-VALLEY VFD: $7,500 · OtherLOCO-VALLEY VFDSOUTH POLK COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT & ACE COMMUNITY PARK INC: $7,500 · OtherSOUTH POLK COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT & ACE COMMUNITY PARK INCSOUTHWEST BELL COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $7,500 · OtherSOUTHWEST BELL COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPTTRINIDAD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $6,669 · OtherTRINIDAD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTCHINA GROVE FIRE & RESCUE INC: $7,150 · Public Safety & DisasterCHINA GROVE FIRE & …980 NORTH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $6,491 · Public Safety & Disaster980 NORTH VOLUNTEER…LAKE PALO PINTO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $5,975 · Public Safety & DisasterLAKE PALO PINTO VOL…
Other$93,576Public Safety & Disaster$19,616

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTH VAN ZANDT VOL FIRE DEPT INC: $7,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSOUTH POLK COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT & ACE COMMUNITY PARK INC: $7,500 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetSOUTHWEST BELL COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $7,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCHINA GROVE FIRE & RESCUE INC: $7,150 over 1y, 5.6% of budget
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 State Firemens and Fire Marshals Association Fire Programs Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from State Firemens and Fire Marshals Association Fire Programs Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 14 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient (grants abroad are filed by region only, and grants under $5,000 are not itemized), so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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