California · Nonprofit
ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION
ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,339,917 to it, the largest being WOODLAWN FOUNDATION ($350,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $650k
What Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation does
Mission
The Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation ("aarbf") was founded in 1971 and derives its name and inspiration from an eight-year old child, alisa ann, who was fatally burned in a backyard barbeque accident. The foundation's mission is to significantly reduce the number of burn injuries through prevention education, and to enchance the qualify of life of those affected by burn injuries in california. The foundation works in partnership with firefighters, educators, burn care professionals, and community members to develop and implement programs and services. The foundation is governed by an executive board of directors and is aided by a small team of staff loacted in pasadena, fresno, clovis, and san francisco, california.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Survivor servicesscholarship programs: the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation provides scholarships and financial support for burn survivors and their families. Aarbf offers four scholarships, the woody and louise "bridge to life" scholarship, the aiming higher educational scholarship, the phoenix world burn congress scholarship and therapy grants. In addition, aarbf offers emergency financial assistance during hospitalization, including financial, housing and food assistance; as well as financial assistance for medical supplies, including pressure garments and image enhancement services, including cosmetics, wigs, and make-up.camps and recreation: champ camp is the largest as well as one of the longest running summer burn camps in the world and is held each year during the month of june at wonder valley ranch in sanger, ca. In 2024, we hosted 95 campers and 17 counselors in training (cit). Cits are past campers (ages 18-20) who have returned to camp to train to be future counselors when they turn twenty-one. Champ camp is designed to encourage, uplift and empower burn survivor children. Through champ camp, many of our campers build lifelong friendships with fellow survivors and gain…
$706,891 spentof which $33,151 as grants74% of program spendingBurn prevention:at the national american burn association conference in chicago april 8th-12th, aarbf entered into a "prevention message" poster competition to get the word out in new ways about being fire safe. The theme of the poster competition was "burn prevention where you live, work, and play preventing burns in the homes" our entry highlights distracted cooking and cell phone usage as a possible cooking hazard, and won third place for the national competition. In 2024, aarbf began distribution to selected areas of fresno county, ca of wildfire p.r.e.p.a.r.e. Program materials. The first round of prevention materials included door hangers to be distributed through cal fire partners and at community events. The materials were designed to direct residents to the online downloadable wildfire p.r.e.p.a.r.e. Guide and was supported with a monthly social media message. Made possible by a grant from cal fire, which will extend through the first quarter of 2026.
$243,192 spent26% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $950,083.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.7M to $1.2M (−30%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 20% · 2018 9% · 2019 14% · 2020 14% · 2021 9% · 2022 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Daniel W Chacon
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $52k → $133k.
12 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
52% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 46% · 2019 21% · 2020 18% · 2021 39% · 2022 40% · 2023 30% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
19% of ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
69% of ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $216k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $767k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$767k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION?
- ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,339,917 to it, the largest being WOODLAWN FOUNDATION ($350,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $1,339,917 in grants to ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION?
- WOODLAWN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 56 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing