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FIREFIGHTERS CROSSING BORDERS ORG Firefighters Crossing Borders
FIREFIGHTERS CROSSING BORDERS ORG Firefighters Crossing Borders (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being Alumbra Innovations Foundation ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $5k
What FIREFIGHTERS CROSSING BORDERS ORG Firefighters Crossing Borders does
Mission
Charitable not for profit, non-governmental for public benefit. A charitable organization formed to provide humanitarian support to under developed countries in the form of Fire service and rescue training; to provide technical and professional assistance; to assist in the procuring of new and used fire,medical and rescue equipment to be donated to fire departments and other emergency agencies being assisted; to assist the family members of firefighters and rescue workers in the way of humanitarian aid; however not including the payment of sick or death benefits, and not including the care of neglected or dependent children
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024, Firefighters Crossing Borders.org shipped or facilitated shipping for multiple pallets of gear and equipment to the country of Mexico, continued relationship building with fire,medical and rescue agencies based here in the US.
$0 spentContinue relationship with Sinaloa Fire Departments. No training occured, but facilitating donations continues.
$0 spentIn 2024 we continued to support of the local bi annual training symposium with the cooperation of several jurisdictions in the region of Sayulita and the Bahia of Banderas and Puerta Vallarta. Training involved basic emergency medical technician training along with lifeguard rescue procedures. Support was mostly shipping of equipment and off site coordination due to availability of instructors.
$0 spentIn 2022 began coordinated efforts with new area in central Baja mexico partnering with Bomberos no Rescate. Providing technical assistance and guidance on establishing non profit status and help with instruction. In 2024 continued this activity along with facilitating donations to this location. Through this effort Bomberos no Rescate has been developing interagency cooperative relationships with the mexican state governments to facilitate equipment across the border.
$0 spent2024 increased activity in the southern Baja in and around Lapaz has grown with involvement of several US Firefighters. Training workshops and agency development is occuring with plans of annual training. Local Mexican business and government are helping so FFCB financial involvement is minimal.
$0 spent
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.
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 $15k to $8k (−45%).
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.
100% of FIREFIGHTERS CROSSING BORDERS ORG Firefighters Crossing Borders’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Chief executive
Joel Schwarz
Executive Director/President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of FIREFIGHTERS CROSSING BORDERS ORG Firefighters Crossing Borders’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.
Where its funders are
FIREFIGHTERS CROSSING BORDERS ORG Firefighters Crossing Borders draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
FIREFIGHTERS CROSSING BORDERS ORG Firefighters Crossing Borders has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FIREFIGHTERS CROSSING BORDERS ORG Firefighters Crossing Borders
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 FIREFIGHTERS CROSSING BORDERS ORG Firefighters Crossing Borders: 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 FIREFIGHTERS CROSSING BORDERS ORG Firefighters Crossing Borders?
- FIREFIGHTERS CROSSING BORDERS ORG Firefighters Crossing Borders (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being Alumbra Innovations Foundation ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIREFIGHTERS CROSSING BORDERS ORG Firefighters Crossing Borders have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,500 in grants to FIREFIGHTERS CROSSING BORDERS ORG Firefighters Crossing Borders.
- Who is the largest funder of FIREFIGHTERS CROSSING BORDERS ORG Firefighters Crossing Borders?
- Alumbra Innovations Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIREFIGHTERS CROSSING BORDERS ORG Firefighters Crossing Borders find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 1 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