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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.

Revenue FY2024
$307k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$125
Net assets
$193k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Brookline Fire Fighters Association does

Mission

Labor organization to organize all paid professional fire fightes within Brookline

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Support Brookline Fire Fighters

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($187k) Expenses 100 ($183k) Net assets 100 ($60k)2018 Revenue 204 ($380k) Expenses 185 ($339k) Net assets 168 ($101k)2019 Revenue 143 ($267k) Expenses 152 ($277k) Net assets 151 ($91k)2020 Revenue 124 ($232k) Expenses 118 ($216k) Net assets 178 ($107k)2021 Revenue 160 ($299k) Expenses 149 ($273k) Net assets 221 ($133k)2022 Revenue 163 ($304k) Expenses 173 ($316k) Net assets 201 ($121k)2023 Revenue 185 ($344k) Expenses 152 ($279k) Net assets 311 ($187k)2024 Revenue 164 ($307k) Expenses 164 ($300k) Net assets 322 ($193k)
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Revenue (164)Expenses (164)Net assets (322)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $121k to $187k (+54%).

$72k
$114k
$103k
$107k
$133k
$121k
$187k
$193k
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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
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’17
$41k
’18
−$10k
’19
$16k
’20
$26k
’21
−$12k
’22
$66k
’23
$6k
’24
7.4
months of
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.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed4444445
Joined·+0+1+0+0+0+3
No longer listed·010002
03Who funds it

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

80%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

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.

MA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’21
Massachusetts out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like BROOKLINE FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION

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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 1%Fundraising 13%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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.

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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.

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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 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