California · Nonprofit
Monterey Fire Safe Council Inc
Monterey Fire Safe Council Inc (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,401 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ($182,140). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $150k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $197k
- Net assets
- $66k
What Monterey Fire Safe Council Inc does
Mission
To provide education, implement and fund projects in accordance with National and California Fire Plans, mobilize citizens and agencies to reduce losses from wildfires, exchange information and foster fire prevention and fire safety within the County of Monterey.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) awarded Fire Safe Council For Monterey County (FSCMC) a grant for $90,000, $45,000 of which was funded in July of 2023. Road side fuel reduction was completed within 1,000 feet of a PG&E facility, opening safer ingress/egress to adjacent public and private roads within five separate Firewise communities in Carmel Valley, CA . Approximately 995 residents in these communities will have safer emergency routes. Support for this fuel reduction project is supported by the local fire authority, Monterey County Regional Fire Protection District.
$18,000 spentof which $45,000 as grants87% of program spendingFire Safe Council of Monterey County was awarded a grant through the Community Emergency Response Volunteer (CERV) organization by Listo California in the amount of $3,750, $2,775 of which was funded in 2023. Listos California engages a statewide network of community-based organizations, Tribal Governments, and Community Emergency Response Teams across the state to boost resiliency, provide accessible in-language information and advance a new culture of disaster preparedness. FSCMC worked with CERV to collaborate with over 25 Monterey County non-profits to educate underserved residents on emergency preparedness.
$2,678 spentof which $2,775 as grants13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $20,678.
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 $138k to $61k (−56%).
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 Monterey Fire Safe Council Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (75% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $21k → $53.
1 of 3 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 Monterey 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
Monterey Fire Safe Council Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 Monterey Fire Safe Council Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
100% of Monterey 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. $261 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
Monterey Fire Safe Council Inc's revenue grew 55% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Monterey 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.
Public support
100%
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 Monterey Fire Safe Council Inc: 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 Monterey Fire Safe Council Inc?
- Monterey Fire Safe Council Inc (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,401 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ($182,140). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Monterey Fire Safe Council Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $197,401 in grants to Monterey Fire Safe Council Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Monterey Fire Safe Council Inc?
- CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $182,140 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Monterey 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.
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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 3 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