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NY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC

NY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,367,415 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,874,741). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$6.5M
Revenue FY2024
85
Funders on record
$6.4M
Grants received
$60M
Net assets
37/85 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%

Against its field

NY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC's revenue grew 29% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,253 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.1M) Expenses 100 ($4.8M) Net assets 100 ($55M)2018 Revenue 122 ($6.2M) Expenses 106 ($5.0M) Net assets 95 ($52M)2019 Revenue 131 ($6.6M) Expenses 135 ($6.4M) Net assets 102 ($56M)2020 Revenue 65 ($3.3M) Expenses 115 ($5.5M) Net assets 105 ($58M)2021 Revenue 326 ($17M) Expenses 150 ($7.1M) Net assets 113 ($62M)2022 Revenue 93 ($4.7M) Expenses 140 ($6.7M) Net assets 95 ($52M)2023 Revenue 84 ($4.3M) Expenses 135 ($6.5M) Net assets 103 ($57M)2024 Revenue 129 ($6.5M) Expenses 159 ($7.6M) Net assets 109 ($60M)
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Revenue (129)Expenses (159)Net assets (109)Peer revenue range

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
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

71% of NY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,740 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$290k
17
$1.1M
18
$214k
19
$2.2M
20
$9.4M
21
$2.0M
22
$2.2M
23
$1.1M
24
1.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $296k → $454k.

20 of 85 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)76% 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 NY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 85 funders by total. 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

NY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

86% 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 NY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC.

29%
largest funder
54%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 41% · 2019 52% · 2020 60% · 2021 34% · 2022 52% · 2023 34%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

37% of NY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

76% of NY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC'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 $1.5M that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 11 states.

IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
DE
FL

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

17
18
19
20
21
22
23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 85 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Organizations like NY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC

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 New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 11%Fundraising 9%

Governance

26
board members
92%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

69%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 21 states

NH
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
SC
AL
GA
FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND 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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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 NY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC?
NY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,367,415 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,874,741). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does NY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC have?
IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $6,367,415 in grants to NY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,874,741 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 85funders 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