California · Nonprofit
Butte County Fire Safe Council
Butte County Fire Safe Council (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,101,263 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ($1,443,613). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.5M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Butte County Fire Safe Council does
Mission
The Butte County Fire Safe Council's mission is to provide wildfire safety in butte county through education and hazard mitigation and to effectively deliver the fire safe message to individuals in foothill communities that they are at risk, that they have a responsibility to protect their lives and to educate them as to what it is they need to do to prepare for wildland fires. It is also our goal to reduce fuel loading in "communities at risk", and to develop sustainable revenue sources for the administration of the fire safe council.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Forest Health - Mitigation: Over 3,000 acres of hazardous fuels reduction and forest restoration completed.
$6,816,547 spent$6,683,035 earned by the program88% of program spendingEducation and Outreach: Educated 500 elementary students, tabled at 25 community events, hosted 6 library programs, hosted 24 meetings for Firewise and Safe council leaders.
$382,420 spent$370,409 earned by the program5% of program spendingBiomass Utilization: Supported BDO Zone rating designation and engineering costs for two Biomass Utilization Facilities.
$332,947 spent$331,345 earned by the program4% of program spendingChipper Program: over 225 residents participated in chipping services for brush clearance on their properties.
$163,457 spent$160,893 earned by the program2% of program spendingGrazing Cooperative: Hosted the 3rd Annual Paradise Grazing Festival and hosted two goat ownership workshops.
$8,436 spent$1,820 earned by the program0% of program spendingFirewise USA: Supported the formation of 20 new Firewise USA communities, attended 10 Firewise USA events, and made 5 educational presentations on the Firewise USA program.
$7,981 spent$7,743 earned by the program0% of program spendingDoom the Broom: Hosted 6 Doom the Broom volunteer days, led by BCFSC California Climate Action Corps Fellows, in partnership with Paradise Recreation & Park District and loaned 50 weed wrench tools to community members.
$905 spent$905 earned by the program0% of program spendingResidents Assistance Program: No calendar year acheivements. Preparing for 2025 program activities.
$528 spent$368 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,713,221.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.4M to $5.2M (+114%).
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 83% · 2018 74% · 2019 45% · 2020 72% · 2021 84% · 2022 79% · 2023 93% · 2024 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Butte County Fire Safe Council’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (69% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Darrel Wilson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $117k → $910k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 Butte County Fire Safe Council’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
Butte County Fire Safe Council leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 Butte County Fire Safe Council.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 72% · 2020 71% · 2021 58% · 2022 50% · 2023 72% — 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
29% of Butte County Fire Safe Council's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
98% of Butte County Fire Safe Council's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Butte County Fire Safe Council has grown faster than three-quarters of the 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Butte County Fire Safe Council receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12.7M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$12.6M
- Department of the Interior$150k
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 Butte County Fire Safe Council
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Butte County Fire Safe Council: 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 Butte County Fire Safe Council?
- Butte County Fire Safe Council (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,101,263 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ($1,443,613). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Butte County Fire Safe Council have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $3,101,263 in grants to Butte County Fire Safe Council, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Butte County Fire Safe Council?
- CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,443,613 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Butte County Fire Safe Council 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 9 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