California · Nonprofit
Bolinas Volunteer Firefighters Assn
Bolinas Volunteer Firefighters Assn (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,000 to it, the largest being KELSON FOUNDATION ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $67k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $109k
What Bolinas Volunteer Firefighters Assn does
Mission
Support volunteers of Fire District
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Bolinas Volunteer Firefighters Association is an organization supporting the volunteers who provide emergency response services to the Bolinas Fire District.
$16,317 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $16,317.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Teresa Donahue
CEO
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $15k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 Bolinas Volunteer Firefighters Assn’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
Bolinas Volunteer Firefighters Assn leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 50% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 Bolinas Volunteer Firefighters Assn's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Bolinas Volunteer Firefighters Assn runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,153 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,153 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like Bolinas Volunteer Firefighters Assn
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Bolinas Volunteer Firefighters Assn: 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 Bolinas Volunteer Firefighters Assn?
- Bolinas Volunteer Firefighters Assn (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,000 to it, the largest being KELSON FOUNDATION ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bolinas Volunteer Firefighters Assn have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $55,000 in grants to Bolinas Volunteer Firefighters Assn, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bolinas Volunteer Firefighters Assn?
- KELSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bolinas Volunteer Firefighters Assn 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 FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 2 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