Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,368,113 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.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- California Fire Safe Council Incshared funders
- National Fire Protection Associationportfolio match
- Grand Lodge International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workersportfolio match
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.
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%. 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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; 55% 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- California Fire Safe Council Incshared fundersCA · backs 13 organizations that share your funders
- National Fire Protection Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grand Lodge International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Brotherhood of Teamstersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters Warehouse Wholesale Liquor Salespersonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Iron Ship Buildersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Electrical Manufacturers Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fm Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Visitor Development Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Star Welfare Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Humanity United Actionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Association of Letter Carriersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
Screen this organization
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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS?
- INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,368,113 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 11 organizations giving $2,368,113 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing