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ASHEVILLE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC

ASHEVILLE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $522,717 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($391,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2022
$4k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$523k
Net assets
$27k
0/3 repeat funders
01What it does

What Asheville Fire Fighters Association Foundation Inc does

Mission

Fire safety and public education programs

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.

Program

Community support - the foundation helps support community projects and activities.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2k) Expenses 100 ($1k) Net assets 100 ($59k)2018 Revenue 581 ($11k) Expenses 311 ($3k) Net assets 96 ($57k)2019 Revenue 527 ($10k) Expenses 3167 ($34k) Net assets 54 ($32k)2020 Revenue 270 ($5k) Expenses 310 ($3k) Net assets 59 ($35k)2021 Revenue 1519 ($28k) Expenses 3151 ($34k) Net assets 58 ($34k)2022 Revenue 203 ($4k) Expenses 220 ($2k) Net assets 46 ($27k)
201720182019202020212022
Revenue (203)Expenses (220)Net assets (46)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $66k to $43k (−35%).

$65k
$66k
$43k
$48k
$48k
$43k
201720182019202020212022
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of ASHEVILLE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,797 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$797
’17
$8k
’18
−$24k
’19
$2k
’20
−$5k
’21
$1k
’22
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 ASHEVILLE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

ASHEVILLE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 ASHEVILLE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC.

75%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of ASHEVILLE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $523k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ASHEVILLE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,133 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin38% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,133 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2022

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

79%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ASHEVILLE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC?
ASHEVILLE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $522,717 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($391,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ASHEVILLE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $522,717 in grants to ASHEVILLE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of ASHEVILLE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $391,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASHEVILLE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 3 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing