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The Leary Firefighters Foundation

The foundation's mission is to provide funding and resources for fire departments to obtain the highest level of equipment, technology and training.

$910k
Granted FY2024still arriving
59
Grants FY2024still arriving
32
States reached
$29k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$4.9MArts & Culture$48kEmployment$47kPublic Benefit$24kEnvironment$16kHealth$15kHuman Services$14k
02FY2024 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $152k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $751k
$14,439
Median grant
32
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOSCOW FIRE DEPARTMENT$28,931
NORTH BELLE VERNON VFD$28,000
VERONA FIRE DEPARTMENT$26,660
MID-COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT$26,071
LT JOSEPH DIBERNARDO FOUNDATION$25,000
FDNY FOUNDATION$25,000
RINGWOOD BOROUGH VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO 1$25,000
WEST SUBURBAN FIRE PROTECTION DIST$24,992
WOOLWICH FIRE DEPARTMENT$24,637
DUNCAN FIRE DEPARTMENT$24,500
MCINTOSH COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$23,925
WINDHAM FIRE DEPARTMENT$23,554
CITY OF CORINTH FIRE DEPARTMENT$23,545
MONTCLAIR FIRE DEPARTMENT$22,990
FREEPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$21,326
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RALSTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQUAD INC: $25k → 12%MOSCOW FIRE DEPARTMENT: $29k → 16%NORTH BELLE VERNON VFD: $28k → 10%WEST STANISLAUS COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT: $25k → 15%LT JOSEPH DIBERNARDO FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%PEEKSKILL FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25k → 9%FDNY BUREAU OF TRAINING: $27k → 17%FDNY FOUNDATION INC: $85k → 20%DILLON COUNTY FIRE STATION 2: $28k → 30%COVE CREEK PEARSON VOL FIRE DEPTARMENT: $27k → 13%HIALEAH FIRE DEPT: $26k → 15%GAINESVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $27k → 19%LUNA PIER (MICHIGAN) VFD: $48k → 10%DETROIT FIRE DEPARTMENT: $46k → 21%MID-COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT: $26k → 13%VERONA FIRE DEPARTMENT: $27k → 10%TUALATIN VALLEY FIRE & RESCUE: $25k → 8%SHERIDAN SOUTHWEST POLK AND WEST VALLEY FIRE DISTRICTS: $25k → 11%LOGAN CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT: $31k → 12%HOBART FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25k → 15%CITY OF LAFAYETTE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25k → 19%WOODCLIFF LAKE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $26k → 7%EDISON DIVISION OF FIRE: $25k → 8%CITY OF TRENTON DEPARTMENT OF FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES: $30k → 11%GLENBURN RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT: $50k → 9%POLLOCK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $31k → 12%MORGAN CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT: $26k → 18%GLASGOW FIRE DEPARTMENT: $26k → 17%WORCESTER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $150k → 11%LT JOSEPH DIBERNARDO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%FDNY FOUNDATION INC: $45k → 20%MENDHAM NJ FIRE DEPARTMERT (GOOGLE GRANT): $25k → 4%RINGWOOD BOROUGH VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO 1: $25k → 12%IRVINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT: $37k → 16%WORCESTER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $127k → 11%LT JOSEPH DIBERNARDO FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%FDNY FOUNDATION INC: $35k → 20%WORCESTER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $66k → 11%LT JOSEPH DIBERNARDO FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%YONKERS FIRE DEPARTMENT: $30k → 9%FDNY FOUNDATION: $25k → 20%EAST ORANGE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $26k → 16%ARBUTUS MD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMERT: $25k → 11%LIEUTENANT JOSEPH P DIBERNARDO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 7%FDNY FOUNDATION: $25k → 20%MILLBURN FIRE DEPT: $33k → 16%LIEUTENANT JOSEPH P DIBERNARDO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 7%FDNY FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 20%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

20%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 8 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +320% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
204

Total granted

$1.0M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+320%
+26%

Still filing today

25%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $834k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public Safety & DisasterHealthEducationEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WP
    WORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY
    5× · 2017–2022 · $355k
  • FF
    FDNY FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $280k · revenue +24%
  • LJ
    LIEUTENANT JOSEPH P DIBERNARDO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +320% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • GR
    GLENBURN RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • LP
    LUNA PIER (MICHIGAN) VFD
    one grant, 2021 · $48k
  • DP
    DETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $46k · revenue +163%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Taylor Township Volunteer Fire Department
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2
Burnsville Volunteer Fire Department

Mission for burnsville vfd burnsville wv the burnsville vfd provides fire protection fire safety and emergency rescue services to the citizens in its designated area. bvfd serves in a safe efficient manner serving all stakeholders.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Duncannon Fire Company No 1 Inc

Provide Fire Prevention & Protection Services

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4
Uniondale Volunteer Fire Company

Fire and ems protection

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Claylick Volunteer Fire Department
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6
Knifley Area Volunteer Fire Department
Public Safety & Disaster
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Pittsburg Volunteer Fire Department

Provide fire protection for over 100 members

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8
Burkeville Volunteer Fire Department

The organization provides emergency, medical, and fire fighting services to the citizens in and around the Burkeville, Virginia area.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Kinsey Volunteer Fire Dept

Volunteer fire dept

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10
Hampden-Sydney Volunteer Fire Dept

To protect the lives and property of the citizens and visitors of Hampden-Sydney and surrounding counties as requested.

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11
Littleton Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Provide fire and rescue services to the citizens of our fire district

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Rudolph Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Provide fire fighting services

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Falls Township Fire Co No 1; the most unlike its peers is Sequoia Parks Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 267 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/65
Grantees still filing
38/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $354,990 · OtherWORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY+160 more: $3,070,090 · Other+160 moreFDNY FOUNDATION INC: $280,283 · Public Safety & DisasterFDNY FOUNDATION INCLIEUTENANT JOSEPH P DIBERNARDO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLIEUTENANT JOSEPH P DIBE…+30 more: $494,812 · Public Safety & Disaster+30 moreRalston Volunteer Fire Department Rescue Squad: $25,103 · HealthAETNA HOSE HOOK AND LADDER COMPANY: $17,539 · HealthHAMPSTEAD VOLUNTEER FIRE AND HOSE COMPANY NO1: $17,010 · HealthCarroll County Rescue Squad Inc: $14,852 · HealthDETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $45,548 · EducationMOUNTAIN HOME VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT MEMBERS ASSOCIATION: $22,153 · EducationSEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY: $16,187 · Environment
Other$3,425,080Public Safety & Disaster$975,095Health$74,504Education$67,701Environment$16,187

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFDNY FOUNDATION INC: $280,283 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetLIEUTENANT JOSEPH P DIBERNARDO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 8y, 26% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $45,548 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNorth Belle Volunteer Volunteer Fire Department: $28,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetCOVE CREEK-PEARSON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $27,289 over 1y, 23% of budgetRalston Volunteer Fire Department Rescue Squad: $25,103 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetRINGWOOD BOROUGH VOLUNTEER FIRE CO: $25,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetARBUTUS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetDunkirk Volunteer Fire Dept & Rescue Squad: $24,413 over 1y, 14% of budgetCooper Landing Emergency Services: $22,991 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetEOLIA COMMUNITY FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $22,175 over 1y, 27% of budgetMOUNTAIN HOME VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT MEMBERS ASSOCIATION: $22,153 over 1y, 42% of budgetPAUL SMITHS GABRIELS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $22,115 over 1y, 12% of budgetCHURCH HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $21,805 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHYATTSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $21,480 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHANCOCK FIRE COMPANY INC: $19,980 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetJASPER HIGHLANDS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $18,680 over 1y, 11% of budgetAETNA HOSE HOOK AND LADDER COMPANY: $17,539 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetATLANTA FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION: $17,353 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHAMPSTEAD VOLUNTEER FIRE AND HOSE COMPANY NO1: $17,010 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGRANVILLE ENGINE & HOSE CO NO1: $16,942 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetHILLTOWN TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE CO: $16,794 over 1y, 11% of budgetHEBRON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $16,355 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetSEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY: $16,187 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBright Fire & EMS Inc: $15,670 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMIDDLE RIVER VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE CO INC: $15,632 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetPikesville Volunteer Fire Co Inc: $15,306 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPOTOMAC FIRE COMPANY NO 2 INC: $15,234 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetPLEASANT HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $14,880 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetCarroll County Rescue Squad Inc: $14,852 over 1y, 34% of budgetKATONAH FIRE DEPARTMENT: $14,778 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER POINT FIRE AND RESCUE INC: $14,439 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetHUNTINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE CO 1: $14,100 over 1y, 12% of budgetSHEPHERDSTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT: $14,006 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetKEYSTONE VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT: $13,863 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRUNNEMEDE FIRE CO 1: $13,830 over 1y, 12% of budgetPIMLICO RURAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $12,790 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTRANSFER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $11,591 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetZELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $11,370 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetCANDIA VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC: $11,255 over 1y, 41% of budgetBENNINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $10,594 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetHianloland Fire Co co Henry Eberle: $9,995 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetBARTON HOSE COMPANY NO 1 INC: $9,800 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSIR WILLIAM JOHNSON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $8,831 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetOCEANPORT HOOK & LADDER COMPANY: $8,827 over 1y, 12% 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.

  • Who funds FDNY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LIEUTENANT JOSEPH P DIBERNARDO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds North Belle Volunteer Volunteer Fire Department ↗
  • Who funds COVE CREEK-PEARSON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
  • Who funds Ralston Volunteer Fire Department Rescue Squad ↗
  • Who funds RINGWOOD BOROUGH VOLUNTEER FIRE CO ↗
  • Who funds ARBUTUS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Firehouse Subs Public…New Jersey Health Off…Center for Technology…Fm FoundationSustainable JerseyNational Recreation a…National Arbor Day Fo…Gary Sinise FoundationAARPCommunity InitiativesCalifornia Fire Found…Project Lead the Way …
Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation IncFL52.9× affinity62 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · New Jersey Health Officers Association · Center for Technology and Civic Life · Fm Foundation · Sustainable Jersey · National Recreation and Park Association · National Arbor Day Foundation · Gary Sinise Foundation · AARP · Community Initiatives · California Fire Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Leary Firefighters Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Leary Firefighters Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • West Fairlee Volunteer Fire Department Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Hampstead Volunteer Fire and Hose Company NO1: 68% of income from government
  • Pikesville Volunteer Fire Co Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Barton Hose Company No 1 Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Hyattsville Volunteer Fire Dept Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Leary Firefighters Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Leary Firefighters Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 267 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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