· Public charity
Western Fire Chiefs Association Inc
To pursue the protection of life and property by leadership, education and support for its members and affiliate organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $131,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $171,375 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $40,375 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $51,500 |
| CAL POLY CORPORATION | $50,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN ASSC-FIRE CHIEFS | $15,000 |
| CALIFORNIA FIRE CHIEFS ASSOC | $8,000 |
| GREAT LAKES DIVISION | $6,500 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 59% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CFCalifornia Fire Chiefs Association8× · 2017–2024 · $212k · revenue +171%
- CPCAL POLY CORPORATION2× · 2023–2024 · $107k · revenue +18%
- SASOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS6× · 2017–2022 · $103k · revenue +200%
Funded once
- WSWA State Association of Fire Chiefsgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $54k · revenue +114%
- WFWASHINGTON FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCone grant, 2023 · $7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Enhance capabilities of Fire Training Officers in San Diego County.
To represent firefighters in contract negotiations.
The Racine Firefighters Association is a part of the Racine Volunteer Fire Department.
We are dedicated to ensuring our members a strong and united voice in the evolution of the Fire Service through unity in leadership political action education and quality member services.
The objectives are to secure adequate remuneration, for the betterment of conditions,for a higher degree of efficiency, to improve the standards for moral, social and economic standards, the cultivation of good fellowship among its members.
The Association serves the fire and emergency responders of Texas and beyond, exists to improve the Texas fire service, and is committed to the betterment of Texas emergency services.
To provide a mutual association of chief officers of the fire departments within Santa Barbara County, to promote the efficient operation and well being of member fire departments, to coordinate all operations deemed necessary in times of…
To provide assistance to member locals in local union efforts and legislative efforts at the state level.
Provide insurance for members. Provide group purchasing for members for recreational supplies. Organize and fund retirement promotions and other parties and social events. Provide legal counsel for negotiations with city in regards to…
Virginia fire chief's association is the advocate for leadership of emergency response organizations, providing comprehensive and integrated statewide public safty efforts, enhancing the quality of life for citizens of virginia by reducing…
Education of Emergency First Responders.
Bringing firefighters together with one voice to promote the training, working conditions, rights, and safety of the occupation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Association of Fire Chiefs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cal Poly Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 13 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 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS INC ↗
- Who funds California Fire Chiefs Association ↗
- Who funds CAL POLY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS ↗
- Who funds OREGON FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WA State Association of Fire Chiefs ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES DIVISION IAFC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Western Fire Chiefs Association Inc 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.
- Oregon Fire Chiefs Association Inc — 1% of income from government
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.