California · Nonprofit
County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association
County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,397 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association does
Mission
The Mission of the County of Los Angeles Fire Museum is to (A) celebrate the history of American fire service and the contributions made to that history by the County of Los Angeles Fire Department, (B)employ the popularity of the fire service as a means to motivate our youth to learn various school topics by showing how those topics pertain to the fire service, (C) document and present the evolution, history and impact of fire-based EMS, (D)acquire artifacts, apparatus, photographs, documents and other materials which assist in the presentation of our history,(E)restore antique fire apparatus to accurately reflect their respective histories. The vision of The County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association is to provide a world-class facility within which to celebrate our history, entertain through a fire service-themed restaurant and banquet facility, educate our visitors in the history of the fire service while promoting public safety.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization currently houses and restores antique fire equipment for show and display. The goal is to tell the history of the American Fire Service in general terms, while emphasizing the County of Los Angeles Fire Department's contributions to that history.
$720,548 spent$168,470 earned by the program79% of program spendingThe organization maintains an insurance program for disabled or injured firemen.
$194,553 spent$222,776 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $915,101.
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.
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 $1.9M to $2.4M (+26%).
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 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $89 → $96.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association’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
County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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 County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 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 County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association: 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 County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association?
- County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,397 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,397 in grants to County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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