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NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION

NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,908,239 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($5,064,456). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$108M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$7.9M
Net assets
$446M
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What National Fire Protection Association does

Mission

Advocate for the elimination of death, injury, property and economic loss due to fire, electrical and related hazards.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Publications - the association's technical and general interest publications cover the public safety spectrum. In addition to codes and standards, they include handbooks, technical/reference books, fire service publications and training manuals.

    $18,257,599 spent$66,888,549 earned by the program
    32% of program spending

  2. Standards development - a major focus of the association is the development, publication, and dissemination of timely consensus codes and standards. Adoption, use and enforcement of these documents serve to minimize the possibility and effects of fire and other hazards in all aspects of contemporary activity. Nfpa standards are developed by about 264 committees, each of which represents a balance of affected interests.

    $14,072,641 spentof which $323,537 as grants
    25% of program spending

  3. Membership - nfpa's membership is comprised of approximately 36,000 individuals. The majority of the members reside in the united states; overall members represent 112 nations with a majority being in north america but growing internationally.

    $8,666,547 spent$7,484,622 earned by the program
    15% of program spending

  4. Training and certification - nfpa trains 50,000 member and non-members in code navigation and application. The training is provided as both instructor-led events held in-person and virtually, and as well as self-paced online learning. Nfpa also supports fire protection, the fire service, electrical safety and building professionals through certification programs.

    $4,283,538 spent$14,327,785 earned by the program
    8% of program spending

  5. Public education - the public education division provides the technical foundation for nfpa's fire and life safety education messages and outreach strategies for the general public, fire departments and other educators

    $8,210,247 spentof which $107,291 as grants
    15% of program spending

  6. International - nfpa has representatives in canada, china, mexico, costa rica, united arab emirates and saudi arabia. The association undertakes the translation of key standards, provides training to a wide range of safety professionals and works in varied collaborative relationships with organizations that share our mission and vision around the world.

    $2,136,944 spent
    4% of program spending

  7. Miscellaneous income

    $1,094,608 earned by the program

  8. Contracts and grants

    $905,781 spent
    2% of program spending

The 8 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $56,533,297.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($93M) Expenses 100 ($74M) Net assets 100 ($304M)2018 Revenue 89 ($82M) Expenses 102 ($76M) Net assets 94 ($284M)2019 Revenue 88 ($81M) Expenses 104 ($77M) Net assets 103 ($312M)2020 Revenue 79 ($73M) Expenses 87 ($65M) Net assets 107 ($326M)2021 Revenue 94 ($88M) Expenses 89 ($66M) Net assets 123 ($374M)2022 Revenue 88 ($82M) Expenses 107 ($80M) Net assets 106 ($322M)2023 Revenue 104 ($96M) Expenses 110 ($82M) Net assets 120 ($365M)2024 Revenue 124 ($115M) Expenses 112 ($83M) Net assets 133 ($404M)2025 Revenue 117 ($108M) Expenses 132 ($98M) Net assets 147 ($446M)
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Revenue (117)Expenses (132)Net assets (147)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $408M to $362M (−11%).

$349M
$334M
$359M
$380M
$408M
$362M
$403M
$435M
$479M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 1% · 2021 8% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$18M
’17
$6.7M
’18
$4.0M
’19
$8.4M
’20
$22M
’21
$2.4M
’22
$15M
’23
$32M
’24
$10M
’25
2.9
months of
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.

Board chair

R David Paulison

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed343933343231323129
Joined·+7+3+5+3+3+3+5+5
No longer listed·29454267
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $504k → $1.2M.

Funder
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1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION’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

NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% 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 NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION.

64%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 63% · 2021 72% · 2022 79% · 2023 73% — 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

64% of NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.8M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 4 states.

OH
CA
MO
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.1M 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.5M on record — $11.8M federal, $1.7M state.

Federal$11.8M
grants $7.0Mcontracts $4.8M
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Top agencies
  • Department of Homeland Security$4.1M
  • Department of Defense$2.2M
  • Department of Energy$1.7M
  • Department of Agriculture$1.4M
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$1.4M
  • General Services Administration$284k
State$1.7M
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By state
  • NJ$850k
  • FL$206k
  • MA$188k
  • OR$163k
  • VT$137k
  • DE$128k

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 NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION

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 Massachusetts

The Fire Protection Research Foundation88%NFI Massachusetts Inc83%Massachusetts Society of Cpa's Inc83%Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc82%Fund for the Public Interest Inc81%New England Association for College Admission Counseling Inc81%New England Water Works Association Inc81%North American Family Institute Inc81%

Nationally

The Fire Protection Research Foundation88%North Dakota Firefighter's Association88%Fbi National Academy Associates Inc88%National Funeral Directors Association of the United States Inc86%International Association of Fire Fighters86%International Association of Fire Chiefs Inc85%North American Securities Administrators Association Inc85%National Federation of Municipal Analysts85%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

58% of spending goes to programs.

Program 58%Management 42%Fundraising 0%

Governance

17
board members
94%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

74%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 3 states

MA
OR
CA

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Two Batterymarch LLC · disregarded
  • Three Batterymarch LLC · disregarded
  • The Fire Protection Research Foundation · exempt
  • Nfpa Global Solutions Inc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION?
NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,908,239 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($5,064,456). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $7,908,239 in grants to NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION?
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $5,064,456 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 5 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