Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,371,538 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS LOCAL 43 ($918,576). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $90M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $65M
What International Association of Fire Fighters does
Mission
To organize all fire fighters and emergency medical or rescue workers to: secure just compensation; promote a safe, healthy and harmonious work environment; promote research and training; encourage the formation of unions; cultivate friendship and fellowship among its members.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Labor and collective bargaining assistance - iaff provides labor relation assistance related to collective bargaining including financial analysis, wage comparables, collective bargaining agreement analysis, and technical assistance for negotiation and arbitration. Additionally, iaff staff is trained to answer questions regarding the fair labor standards act, employee health and pension benefits, and conduct analysis of collective bargaining agreements.
Education and training - the iaff provided education and training services to encourage its members to continuously build their skills and knowledge in their roles as fire fighters, paramedics, and union leaders. Members have access to iaff education and training opportunities on a wide array of topics. The iaff also provides access to online learning resources as well as information about hands-on training, classroom education, self-paced study, instructional conferences, scholaships, and more.
Health and safety - iaff develops and encourages programs to incorporate safe practices into the fire fighting industry. Through various programs and outlets such as the near-miss reporting system, fact sheet support, presumptive health initiatives, and distribution of safety alerts, the iaff is dedicated to provide fire fighters and emergency medical responders with the most current information on how the work environment affects their health.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
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 $55M to $70M (+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: 2017 13% · 2018 13% · 2019 11% · 2020 11% · 2021 10% · 2022 11% · 2023 10% · 2024 8% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $215k → $220k.
From the IRS filings of INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS’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
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 39% · 2019 36% · 2020 41% · 2021 45% · 2022 45% · 2023 45% — 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
57% of INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Government funding INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $63.8M on record — $63.7M federal, $98k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$33.7M
- Department of Homeland Security$14.2M
- Department of Transportation$13.9M
- Department of Energy$1.4M
- Department of Agriculture$300k
- Department of Defense$225k
- Registration for Meetings&Conf$48k
- Licenses$30k
- Dues$20k
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 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Iaff Firepac Educational - Treasury · exempt
- International Association of Fire Fighters Foundation · exempt
- Iaff Financial Corporation · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS: 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 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS?
- INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,371,538 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS LOCAL 43 ($918,576). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $2,371,538 in grants to INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS?
- INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS LOCAL 43 is the largest funder on record, with $918,576 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 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