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PALOMAR MOUNTAIN FIRE SAFE COUNCIL FOUNDATION DBA PMFSC
PALOMAR MOUNTAIN FIRE SAFE COUNCIL FOUNDATION DBA PMFSC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,624 to it, the largest being SAN DIEGO REGIONAL FIRE & EMERGENCY ($49,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $71k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $24k
What Palomar Mountain Fire Safe Council Foundation Dba Pmfsc does
Mission
The mission is to reduce the fuel load in the side of palomar mountain and within reach of residential neighborhoods on top of the mountain and to enhance the ability of firefighting organizations to gain control by clearing brush and dead trees.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The primary activity of the organization is to obtain government grants to be used to reduce the fuel load in the sides of palomar mountain and within reach of residential neighborhoods on top of the mountain. By clearing brush and dead trees, we enhance the ability of firefighting organizations to gain control in our very high risk fire environment. We contract with experienced, licensed contractors to perform the field work.
$57,754 spentof which $63,656 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $57,754.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $32k to $13k (−60%).
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 PALOMAR MOUNTAIN FIRE SAFE COUNCIL FOUNDATION DBA PMFSC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $12k → $10k.
1 of 2 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 PALOMAR MOUNTAIN FIRE SAFE COUNCIL FOUNDATION DBA PMFSC’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
PALOMAR MOUNTAIN FIRE SAFE COUNCIL FOUNDATION DBA PMFSC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 PALOMAR MOUNTAIN FIRE SAFE COUNCIL FOUNDATION DBA PMFSC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 99% · 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 PALOMAR MOUNTAIN FIRE SAFE COUNCIL FOUNDATION DBA PMFSC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $124 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
PALOMAR MOUNTAIN FIRE SAFE COUNCIL FOUNDATION DBA PMFSC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like PALOMAR MOUNTAIN FIRE SAFE COUNCIL FOUNDATION DBA PMFSC
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
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PALOMAR MOUNTAIN FIRE SAFE COUNCIL FOUNDATION DBA PMFSC?
- PALOMAR MOUNTAIN FIRE SAFE COUNCIL FOUNDATION DBA PMFSC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,624 to it, the largest being SAN DIEGO REGIONAL FIRE & EMERGENCY ($49,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PALOMAR MOUNTAIN FIRE SAFE COUNCIL FOUNDATION DBA PMFSC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $49,624 in grants to PALOMAR MOUNTAIN FIRE SAFE COUNCIL FOUNDATION DBA PMFSC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PALOMAR MOUNTAIN FIRE SAFE COUNCIL FOUNDATION DBA PMFSC?
- SAN DIEGO REGIONAL FIRE & EMERGENCY is the largest funder on record, with $49,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PALOMAR MOUNTAIN FIRE SAFE COUNCIL FOUNDATION DBA PMFSC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 2 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