Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
DC FIREFIGHTERS BURN FOUNDATION
DC FIREFIGHTERS BURN FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $229,486 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($66,880). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $488k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $229k
- Net assets
- $268k
What DC Firefighters Burn Foundation does
Mission
Our mission is to prevent burns & improve quality of life of burn survivors through programs, education, and research. We support firefighters who have been hospitalized by burn injuries in performance of their duties as well as their families, which includes transportation, lodging, and meals for family members that have loved ones in the burn center. We help fund the burn center at the washington hospital center, the only adult burn treatment center in the washington, dc area. We send and accompany young burn survivors from the dc area every summer to the children's burn camp in connecticut. We provide burn education and prevention programs for citizens and firefighters, which includes a recent program specific to the senior population within the district. We share in the rehabilitation of recovery of burn survivors and their families through a wide variety of survivor support programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2023, DC Firefighters Burn Foundation (the organization) had the following accomplishments:-provided $146,076 in support of the pediatric burn care program at children's national hospital. This included funding one-fourth of the salary of the burn occupational therapist, purchasing equipment for the child life team and burn rehabilitation gym, and supporting educational opportunities such as attendance at the 2023 american burn association for 10 team members.-hosted the phoenix society's 2023 world burn congress (wbc) at the gaylord national harbor. The wbc is an international conference that brought together nearly 900 burn survivors, their families, caregivers, burn care professionals, and firefighters worldwide. In addition to being a platinum sponsor, we funded over 50 local burn survivors, caregivers, and burn professionals from the washington metropolitan region. -continued to support our annual children's burn camp program for young burn survivors ages 8 to 18. -provided an opportunity for adult burn survivors from the national capital region to participate in programming at the adaptive sports center in crested butte, co. -continued to fund the image enhancement…
$391,875 spentof which $146,076 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $391,875.
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 2019 to 2020, from $460k to $246k (−47%).
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: 2017 20% · 2023 18% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of DC FIREFIGHTERS BURN FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $13k → $10k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 DC FIREFIGHTERS BURN 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
DC FIREFIGHTERS BURN FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 DC FIREFIGHTERS BURN FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 54% · 2022 96% · 2023 73% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
17% of DC FIREFIGHTERS BURN FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
DC FIREFIGHTERS BURN FOUNDATION draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $86k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
DC FIREFIGHTERS BURN FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding DC FIREFIGHTERS BURN FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $351k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$351k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like DC FIREFIGHTERS BURN 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DC FIREFIGHTERS BURN FOUNDATION?
- DC FIREFIGHTERS BURN FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $229,486 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($66,880). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DC FIREFIGHTERS BURN FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $229,486 in grants to DC FIREFIGHTERS BURN FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DC FIREFIGHTERS BURN FOUNDATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $66,880 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DC FIREFIGHTERS BURN FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 14 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