California · Nonprofit
CENTRAL VENTURA COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC
CENTRAL VENTURA COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,755,104 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ($1,261,604). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $428k
What Central Ventura County Fire Safe Council Inc does
Mission
Ventura regional fire safe council is a grassroots, community-led organization that mobilizes residents to protect their homes, communities, and environments from catastrophic wildfire, through collaborative planning, programs, mitigation and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The ventura regional fire safe council (vrfsc) provides essential wildfire mitigation and awareness programs that enable ventura county's resilient and treasured communities to live more safely with the threat of wildfire. Our board of directors bring a deep and broad understanding of wildfire mitigation, resources, mapping, local legislation, and content expertise.facilitated 177 education and outreach events, webinars, town hall meetings, and workshops, reaching 6,637 people throughout ventura county. Maintained media and digital presence through various outreach platforms, achieving an estimated digital reach of over 53,000 individuals. Programs were offered in english and spanish to promote inclusion and equity.completed 730 home hardening assessments, helping residents identify and address the most vulnerable components of their homes to wildfire. Supported the recognition of over 40 firewise usa communities (41+ to date). Provided firewise usa program assistance and distributed over $25,000 in funding to support community-level wildfire resilience through chipper events, vegetation management, ember-resistant vents, yard signage, and other mitigation activities.delivered…
$1,022,305 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,022,305.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $409k to $938k (+130%).
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: 2021 58% · 2022 74% · 2023 96% · 2024 98% · 2025 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CENTRAL VENTURA COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC’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. 1 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Stephen Watson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $20k → $109k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 CENTRAL VENTURA COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL 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
CENTRAL VENTURA COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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
100% 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 CENTRAL VENTURA COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 63% · 2021 91% · 2022 67% · 2023 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 CENTRAL VENTURA COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $454k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CENTRAL VENTURA COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTRAL VENTURA COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTRAL VENTURA COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTRAL VENTURA COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC?
- CENTRAL VENTURA COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,755,104 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ($1,261,604). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRAL VENTURA COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,755,104 in grants to CENTRAL VENTURA COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL VENTURA COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC?
- CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,261,604 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL VENTURA COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 3 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