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BUTTE COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND INC

BUTTE COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND INC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,981 to it, the largest being PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund ($61,645). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$32k
Revenue FY2024
5
Funders on record
$88k
Grants received
$228k
Net assets
1/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%

Against its field

BUTTE COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($19k) Expenses 100 ($2k) Net assets 100 ($118k)2018 Revenue 1186 ($230k) Expenses 1716 ($41k) Net assets 260 ($308k)2019 Revenue 2180 ($423k) Expenses 24078 ($572k) Net assets 134 ($159k)2020 Revenue 335 ($65k) Expenses 1639 ($39k) Net assets 156 ($185k)2021 Revenue 129 ($25k) Expenses 747 ($18k) Net assets 163 ($193k)2022 Revenue 11 ($2k) Expenses 217 ($5k) Net assets 160 ($189k)2023 Revenue 307 ($60k) Expenses 1156 ($27k) Net assets 187 ($222k)2024 Revenue 165 ($32k) Expenses 1059 ($25k) Net assets 193 ($228k)
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Revenue (165)Expenses (1059)Net assets (193)Peer revenue range

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

100% of BUTTE COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,776 orgs

Surplus & reserves

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

$17k
17
$189k
18
$149k
19
$26k
20
$7k
21
$3k
22
$32k
23
$7k
24
3.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2020: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $5k.

4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)89% 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 FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND 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

BUTTE COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

89% 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 FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND INC.

70%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 74% · 2019 85% · 2020 100%growing more concentrated.

“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

89% of BUTTE COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND 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. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.

DE

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

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20
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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 BUTTE COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND INC

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 California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUTTE COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND INC: 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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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 BUTTE COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND INC?
BUTTE COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND INC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,981 to it, the largest being PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund ($61,645). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BUTTE COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $87,981 in grants to BUTTE COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BUTTE COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND INC?
PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund is the largest funder on record, with $61,645 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BUTTE COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND INC 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.

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 5funders 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