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OAKLANDALAMEDA COUNTYEMERYVILLE FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND
OAKLANDALAMEDA COUNTYEMERYVILLE FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $536,225 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($276,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $435k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $536k
- Net assets
- $358k
What Oaklandalameda Countyemeryville Firefighters Charity Fund does
Mission
The mission of the local 55 charity fund is to provide funding and support for worthy charities in the city of oakland as well as the surrounding alameda county.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization made cash donations to various groups and charitable organizations of between 100 and 6,000 each.
$423,722 spentof which $341,334 as grants98% of program spendingThe organization made contributions to various charitable organizations and funds supporting firefighters and their families.
$10,024 spentof which $10,024 as grants2% of program spendingThe organization donates t-shirts and other promotional items to various charitable organizations.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $433,746.
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 2017 to 2018, from $169k to $224k (+33%).
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: 2021 40% · 2022 38% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of OAKLANDALAMEDA COUNTYEMERYVILLE FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $19k → $165k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $76k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Alameda County Firefighters Local55). These are real filings, and they are not money OAKLANDALAMEDA COUNTYEMERYVILLE FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of OAKLANDALAMEDA COUNTYEMERYVILLE FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND’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
OAKLANDALAMEDA COUNTYEMERYVILLE FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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
61% 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 OAKLANDALAMEDA COUNTYEMERYVILLE FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 91% · 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
61% of OAKLANDALAMEDA COUNTYEMERYVILLE FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND'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 $210k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $326k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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
OAKLANDALAMEDA COUNTYEMERYVILLE FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like OAKLANDALAMEDA COUNTYEMERYVILLE FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Intl Assoc of Firegfighters Lcl 55 · exempt
- Alameda County Firefighters Lcl 55 · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OAKLANDALAMEDA COUNTYEMERYVILLE FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND?
- OAKLANDALAMEDA COUNTYEMERYVILLE FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $536,225 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($276,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OAKLANDALAMEDA COUNTYEMERYVILLE FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $536,225 in grants to OAKLANDALAMEDA COUNTYEMERYVILLE FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OAKLANDALAMEDA COUNTYEMERYVILLE FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND?
- THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $276,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OAKLANDALAMEDA COUNTYEMERYVILLE FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND 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