New York · Nonprofit
Fire FamilyTransportation Foundation LTD AKA FDNY Fire Family Transportation Fou
Fire FamilyTransportation Foundation LTD AKA FDNY Fire Family Transportation Fou (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,484,298 to it, the largest being STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ($1,030,503). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $818k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Fire FamilyTransportation Foundation LTD AKA FDNY Fire Family Transportation Fou does
Mission
The central focus of the foundation is assisting the family of firefighters in their times of greatest need, in transporting firefighters, family members and department personnel to and from medical institutions both for care and family support.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To secure funding to allow the foundation to acquire vechicles that will become official vehicles of the NYC Fire Dept. including city license plates and department radios.
$371,911 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $371,911.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.9M to $2.4M (+23%).
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.
87% of Fire FamilyTransportation Foundation LTD AKA FDNY Fire Family Transportation Fou’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $69k → $1.1M.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Fire FamilyTransportation Foundation LTD AKA FDNY Fire Family Transportation Fou’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
Fire FamilyTransportation Foundation LTD AKA FDNY Fire Family Transportation Fou leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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
99% 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 Fire FamilyTransportation Foundation LTD AKA FDNY Fire Family Transportation Fou.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 78% · 2020 40% · 2021 93% · 2022 99% · 2023 97% — 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.
How long its funders stay
60% of Fire FamilyTransportation Foundation LTD AKA FDNY Fire Family Transportation Fou'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
74% of Fire FamilyTransportation Foundation LTD AKA FDNY Fire Family Transportation Fou's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k 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
Fire FamilyTransportation Foundation LTD AKA FDNY Fire Family Transportation Fou runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Fire FamilyTransportation Foundation LTD AKA FDNY Fire Family Transportation Fou
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 Fire FamilyTransportation Foundation LTD AKA FDNY Fire Family Transportation Fou: 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 Fire FamilyTransportation Foundation LTD AKA FDNY Fire Family Transportation Fou?
- Fire FamilyTransportation Foundation LTD AKA FDNY Fire Family Transportation Fou (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,484,298 to it, the largest being STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ($1,030,503). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Fire FamilyTransportation Foundation LTD AKA FDNY Fire Family Transportation Fou have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,484,298 in grants to Fire FamilyTransportation Foundation LTD AKA FDNY Fire Family Transportation Fou, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Fire FamilyTransportation Foundation LTD AKA FDNY Fire Family Transportation Fou?
- STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,030,503 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Fire FamilyTransportation Foundation LTD AKA FDNY Fire Family Transportation Fou find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 11 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