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CALIFORNIA PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS

CALIFORNIA PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$7.9M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$100k
Net assets
$7.0M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What California Professional Firefighters does

Mission

To improve the lives of california fire fighters achieved by working for a secure work environment, safety on the job, health care and retirement security, and for the resources to protect the safety of the public and its first responders.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To provide a proactive legislative and governmental advocacy program.

  2. To provide its constituent local unions with tools to secure their member's futures.

  3. To seek the affiliation of non-affiliated international locals into the cpf.

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

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 ($4.1M) Expenses 100 ($3.8M) Net assets 100 ($4.1M)2018 Revenue 109 ($4.4M) Expenses 138 ($5.3M) Net assets 80 ($3.3M)2019 Revenue 118 ($4.8M) Expenses 105 ($4.0M) Net assets 101 ($4.1M)2020 Revenue 123 ($5.1M) Expenses 122 ($4.6M) Net assets 110 ($4.5M)2021 Revenue 126 ($5.2M) Expenses 127 ($4.8M) Net assets 118 ($4.9M)2022 Revenue 143 ($5.9M) Expenses 129 ($4.9M) Net assets 141 ($5.8M)2023 Revenue 150 ($6.1M) Expenses 141 ($5.4M) Net assets 159 ($6.6M)2024 Revenue 193 ($7.9M) Expenses 197 ($7.5M) Net assets 169 ($7.0M)
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Revenue (193)Expenses (197)Net assets (169)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6.8M to $7.7M (+14%).

$6.3M
$5.5M
$6.2M
$6.5M
$6.8M
$7.7M
$8.5M
$8.9M
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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. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$287k
’17
−$816k
’18
$836k
’19
$407k
’20
$321k
’21
$946k
’22
$749k
’23
$409k
’24
8.3
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.

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Listed1316171815151516
Joined·+5+5+5+1+1+2+4
No longer listed·2444123
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIA PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS’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

CALIFORNIA PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

NY

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 CALIFORNIA PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS

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

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

10
board members
80%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • California Fire Foundation · exempt
  • Firefighters Research and Education · exempt
  • Cpf Independent Expenditure PAC · exempt
  • Ca Professional Firefighters PAC · exempt
  • Firefighters Print and Design · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS: 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 PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS?
CALIFORNIA PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CALIFORNIA PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100,000 in grants to CALIFORNIA PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS.
Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS?
BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CALIFORNIA PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS 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 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