Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BROOKLINE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION
BROOKLINE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $125 to it, the largest being COHEN-SOLOMON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Melampy-Lawrence Charitable Trustshared funders
- The Leary Firefighters Foundationportfolio match
- Painters and Allied Trades DC #35 Allied Trades District Council #35portfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25 → $100.
From the IRS filings of BROOKLINE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION’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
BROOKLINE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% 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: 2017 100% · 2021 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 BROOKLINE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Melampy-Lawrence Charitable Trustshared fundersMA · backs 7 organizations that share your funders
- The Leary Firefighters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Painters and Allied Trades DC #35 Allied Trades District Council #35portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nextdoor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fm Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Association of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pipeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Neca-Ibew National Labor-Management Cooperation Committee Trust Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Aft Disaster Relief Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Public Pension Coalitionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Great Lakes Region Organizing Committeeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BROOKLINE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BROOKLINE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BROOKLINE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION?
- BROOKLINE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $125 to it, the largest being COHEN-SOLOMON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BROOKLINE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $125 in grants to BROOKLINE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of BROOKLINE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION?
- COHEN-SOLOMON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROOKLINE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing