California · Nonprofit
FIRE SAFE COUNCIL OF NEVADA COUNTY
FIRE SAFE COUNCIL OF NEVADA COUNTY (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $980,404 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ($611,177). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $255k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $980k
- Net assets
- $-1023173
What Fire Safe Council of Nevada County does
Mission
The mission of Fire Safe Council of Nevada County is to create firewise communities, public education and programs to enhance emergecy preparedness for catastrophic wildfire; to network with other fire safe councils, firewise communities, government agencies and foundations for the benefit of the citizens of nevada county.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Firewise communities/usa is a national program developed by the national fire protection association in partnership with federal land management agencies. Under this program, the council provides community wildfire hazard assessments, training of defensible space advisors, children's education, clearing of defensible space for low-income seniors and the disabled, scotch broom removal and community outreach education.fuel break and biomass projects: the council manages strategic community fuel breaks created pursuant to its community wildfire protection plan.community chipping and green waste: the council provides chipping services to nevada county landowners who have accumulated brush piles while working to clear defensible space and evacuation routes. The council also hosts annual green waste drop events for residents to dispose of vegetation on their parcels.the Fire Safe Council of Nevada County creates reflective safety address signs so public safety personnel can find the location in an emergency.
$644,697 spent$32,934 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $644,697.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.5M to $3.8M (+156%).
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 63% · 2019 78% · 2020 95% · 2021 46% · 2022 82% · 2023 90% · 2024 92% · 2025 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of FIRE SAFE COUNCIL OF NEVADA COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Jamie Jones Purkey
Executive director
Board chair
Pete Williams
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $124k → $20k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 SAFE COUNCIL OF NEVADA COUNTY’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 SAFE COUNCIL OF NEVADA COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 FIRE SAFE COUNCIL OF NEVADA COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 84% · 2021 63% · 2022 100% · 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
64% of FIRE SAFE COUNCIL OF NEVADA COUNTY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $118 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
FIRE SAFE COUNCIL OF NEVADA COUNTY's revenue fell 51% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FIRE SAFE COUNCIL OF NEVADA COUNTY
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
67% 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 FIRE SAFE COUNCIL OF NEVADA COUNTY: 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 SAFE COUNCIL OF NEVADA COUNTY?
- FIRE SAFE COUNCIL OF NEVADA COUNTY (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $980,404 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ($611,177). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRE SAFE COUNCIL OF NEVADA COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $980,404 in grants to FIRE SAFE COUNCIL OF NEVADA COUNTY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRE SAFE COUNCIL OF NEVADA COUNTY?
- CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $611,177 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRE SAFE COUNCIL OF NEVADA COUNTY 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 5 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