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Virginia Professional Fire Fighters

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$93k
Granted FY2026still arriving
93
Grants FY2026still arriving
5
States reached
$5k
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, FY2020 to 2026.

Public Safety & Disaster$200kYouth Development$10kHuman Services$6kHealth$5kPhilanthropy$3k
02FY2026 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$554k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
FIRE FIGHTER CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK$2,500
ROANOKE FFS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
METRO RICHMOND FLYING SQUAD$2,500
ROANOKE VALLEY FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDAT$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
VIRGINIA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION$2,500
HENRICO FFS AND FAMILIES FOUNDATION$2,500
CENTRAL VIRGINIA BURN CAMP$2,500
OLD DOMINION FF BURN FOUNDATION$2,500
RICHMOND LOCAL 995 RFD FOUNDATION$2,500
LOUDOUN CAREER FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDA$2,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY23–26, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%FIRE FIGHTER CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK: $3k → 14%LOUDOUN CAREER FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDA: $3k → 4%FIRE FIGHTER CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK: $3k → 14%LOUDOUN CAREER FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $3k → 4%FIRE FIGHTER CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK: $1k → 14%LOUDOUN CAREER FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDA: $3k → 4%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$107k · 13 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2026, 2 since wound down; 82 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
53

Total granted

$107k
$53k

Still filing today

46%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24’25’26
Public Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • RV
    ROANOKE VALLEY FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2023–2026 · $11k
  • RL
    RICHMOND LOCAL 995 RFD FOUNDATION
    4× · 2023–2026 · $11k
  • RF
    ROANOKE FFS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2023–2026 · $10k

Funded once

  • VF
    VA FF ASSOCIATIONS-LOCALS
    one grant, 2021 · $9k
  • VP
    VIRGINIA PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS
    one grant, 2025 · $8k
  • VM
    VCU MASSEY CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 148 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
2/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROANOKE VALLEY FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · OtherROANOKE VALLEY FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION INCRICHMOND LOCAL 995 RFD FOUNDATION: $11,000 · OtherRICHMOND LOCAL 995 RFD FOUNDATIONROANOKE FFS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherROANOKE FFS CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONHENRICO FFS AND FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherHENRICO FFS AND FAMILIES FOUNDATIONVA FF ASSOCIATIONS-LOCALS: $9,000 · OtherVIRGINIA PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS: $7,500 · Other+136 more: $116,000 · Other+136 moreHANOVER CREW FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHANOVER CREW …METRO RICHMOND FLYING SQUAD INC: $8,500 · Public Safety & DisasterMETRO RICHMON…SPOTSYLVANIA FIRE & RESCUE FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Public Safety & DisasterSPOTSYLVANIA …LOUDOUN CAREER FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Human ServicesFIREFIGHTER CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $6,300 · Human ServicesCentral Virginia Burn Camp: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$174,500Public Safety & Disaster$26,000Human Services$13,800Youth Development$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCentral Virginia Burn Camp: $10,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetMETRO RICHMOND FLYING SQUAD INC: $8,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSPOTSYLVANIA FIRE & RESCUE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetLOUDOUN CAREER FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 3y, 19% of budgetFIREFIGHTER CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $6,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 3.0% 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 HANOVER CREW FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Central Virginia Burn Camp ↗
  • Who funds METRO RICHMOND FLYING SQUAD INC ↗
  • Who funds SPOTSYLVANIA FIRE & RESCUE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOUDOUN CAREER FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FIREFIGHTER CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Virginia Professional Fire Fighters funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Virginia Professional Fire Fighters. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely 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 Virginia Professional Fire Fighters?

    Find your warmest path to Virginia Professional Fire Fighters 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 148 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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