California · Nonprofit
MENDOCINO COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC
MENDOCINO COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $991,502 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ($704,592). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $992k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Mendocino County Fire Safe Council Inc does
Mission
To inform, empower and mobilize county residents to survive and thrive in a wildfire-prone environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
FIRE FUELS REDUCTION: MCFSC manages grant-funded projects and programs to reduce fuel loads and improve wildfire mitigation in Mendocino County. Using both its own crew and subcontractors, MCFSC provided free defensible-space clearing at the homes of 143 income-qualified seniors and/or disabled residents, supplied 85 days of free chipping services for neighborhood-level defensible-space improvement (serving roughly 700 residences), and conducted 79 free home assessments for wildfire-preparedness. MCFSC's fuel-reduction projects created safer ingress/egress routes and shaded fuel breaks that will slow fires and provide safe workspaces for responders, totaling 410 acres. MCFSC's crew partnered with Sherwood Firewise Communities to clear additional acres in Brooktrails. MCFSC also collaborated with numerous local groups to sponsor or apply for other successful fuel reduction grants such as PG&E funded vegetation management grants. Thanks to a grant from the State Coastal Conservancy, MCFSC added a track mower to its fleet that will improve its ability to deliver community chipping services and work projects in future years.
$2,541,354 spent$260,395 earned by the program85% of program spendingEDUCATION and OUTREACH: MCFSC conducted outreach and education in support of wildfire preparedness and mitigation through convening and/or attending numerous community meetings, including 113 inter-agency coordination meetings, 56 local neighborhood Fire Safe Council meetings and 37 community events. MCFSC participated in radio interviews, issued print articles, and maintained a resource-rich website, blog and monthly newsletter. There are now over 1,677 subscribers to the newsletter, whose email version was opened 9,135 times this year. Our website has 17,396 users, and this year we recorded 76,645 Facebook hits, and 2,431 views of how-to videos on home-hardening and defensible-space clearing on the MCFSC YouTube channel. MCFSC provided $135,000 of micro-grants to local fire departments and Neighborhood Fire Safe Councils for small but key strategic local preparedness projects. MCFSC continued to partner with other agencies to plan and strategize for wildfire mitigation and preparedness projects. MCFSC hosts regular leadership meetings for its affiliated Neighborhood Fire Safe Councils, which grew last year to 81 countywide. MCFSC encouraged the Neighborhood Fire Safe Councils to…
$432,295 spentof which $153,650 as grants15% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,973,649.
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 $853k to $1.7M (+105%).
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: 2020 56% · 2021 46% · 2022 75% · 2023 78% · 2024 85% · 2025 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of MENDOCINO COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (69% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
Scott Cratty
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $45k → $116k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 MENDOCINO COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC’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
MENDOCINO COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 MENDOCINO COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 86% · 2021 50% · 2022 49% · 2023 48% — 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.
Where its funders are
91% of MENDOCINO COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $93k 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
MENDOCINO COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MENDOCINO COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.3M
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 MENDOCINO COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MENDOCINO COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC?
- MENDOCINO COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $991,502 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ($704,592). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MENDOCINO COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $991,502 in grants to MENDOCINO COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MENDOCINO COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC?
- CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $704,592 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MENDOCINO COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC 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.
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 6 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