California · Nonprofit
California Fire Chiefs Foundation
California Fire Chiefs Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $219,800 to it, the largest being GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION ($219,800). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $246k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $220k
- Net assets
- $49k
What California Fire Chiefs Foundation does
Mission
California Fire Chiefs Foundation is about leading with vision, fostering resilience within the ranks, and ensuring the safety and well-being of our communities. To support these critical responsibilities, we have developed a range of targeted programs and initiatives that address the most pressing challenges faced by fire service professionals today. Our foundations work spans from providing life-saving behavioral health resources for first responders, to offering scholarships that make professional development accessible to all, regardless of financial means. We also extend our support through benevolent funds for those who face personal tragedies while on duty, and we champion innovation through research and development aimed at enhancing fire and emergency medical services statewide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
California Fire Chiefs Foundation is about leading with vision, fostering resilience within the ranks, and ensuring the safety and well-being of our communities. To support these critical responsibilities, we have developed a range of targeted programs and initiatives that address the most pressing challenges faced by fire service professionals today. Our foundations work spans from providing life-saving behavioral health resources for first responders, to offering scholarships that make professional development accessible to all, regardless of financial means. We also extend our support through benevolent funds for those who face personal tragedies while on duty, and we champion innovation through research and development aimed at enhancing fire and emergency medical services statewide.
$95,000 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $95,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $10k to $463k (+4311%).
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.
100% of California Fire Chiefs Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of California Fire Chiefs Foundation’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.
Where its funders are
100% of California Fire Chiefs Foundation's grant income comes from California funders.
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.
Against its field
California Fire Chiefs Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like California Fire Chiefs Foundation
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 California Fire Chiefs Foundation: 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 California Fire Chiefs Foundation?
- California Fire Chiefs Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $219,800 to it, the largest being GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION ($219,800). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does California Fire Chiefs Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $219,800 in grants to California Fire Chiefs Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of California Fire Chiefs Foundation?
- GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $219,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like California Fire Chiefs Foundation 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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