California · Nonprofit
CHULA VISTA FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION
CHULA VISTA FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $344,169 to it, the largest being STEPHEN & MARY BIRCH FOUNDATION INC ($275,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $344k
- Net assets
- $234k
What Chula Vista Firefighter Foundation does
Mission
Disaster relief/safety ed/humanitarian support
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Pool safety, direct community aide, community support, project warmth,
$47,135 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $47,135.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $167k to $234k (+40%).
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.
97% of CHULA VISTA FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $28k → $52k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 CHULA VISTA FIREFIGHTER 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.
How concentrated its funding is
CHULA VISTA FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 91% · 2021 58% · 2022 99% · 2023 96% — 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
CHULA VISTA FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CHULA VISTA FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,208 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,208 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHULA VISTA FIREFIGHTER 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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHULA VISTA FIREFIGHTER 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 CHULA VISTA FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION?
- CHULA VISTA FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $344,169 to it, the largest being STEPHEN & MARY BIRCH FOUNDATION INC ($275,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHULA VISTA FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $344,169 in grants to CHULA VISTA FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHULA VISTA FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION?
- STEPHEN & MARY BIRCH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $275,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHULA VISTA FIREFIGHTER 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.
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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 2018–2025), and the filings of 7 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing