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PHOENIX FIRE FOUNDATION

PHOENIX FIRE FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,371 to it, the largest being PHOENIX SUNS CHARITIES INC ($110,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$37k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$175k
Net assets
$132k
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 63%
01What it does

What Phoenix Fire Foundation does

Mission

Supports the Phoenix Fire Department

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Ems Training

    $11,587 spent
    43% of program spending
  2. Remodel at Fire HQ

    $9,872 spent
    36% of program spending
  3. T-Shirts

    $5,750 spent
    21% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $27,209.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($159k) Expenses 100 ($44k) Net assets 100 ($163k)2021 Revenue 28 ($44k) Expenses 77 ($34k) Net assets 107 ($174k)2022 Revenue 29 ($45k) Expenses 143 ($62k) Net assets 96 ($157k)2023 Revenue 25 ($39k) Expenses 126 ($55k) Net assets 87 ($141k)2024 Revenue 23 ($37k) Expenses 108 ($47k) Net assets 81 ($132k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (23)Expenses (108)Net assets (81)Peer revenue range

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 $174k to $157k (−10%).

$163k
$174k
$157k
$141k
$132k
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of PHOENIX FIRE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,797 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$115k
’20
$11k
’21
−$17k
’22
−$16k
’23
−$10k
’24
62
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $20k.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'25*
total
Mercy Careunclassified
$40k
funders
1
2
1
2
2
1

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 PHOENIX FIRE FOUNDATION’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

PHOENIX FIRE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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 PHOENIX FIRE FOUNDATION.

63%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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 PHOENIX FIRE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Arizona funders.

AZ

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

’19
’20
’22
’23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PHOENIX FIRE FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−27% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−31% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,076 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds PHOENIX FIRE FOUNDATION?
PHOENIX FIRE FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,371 to it, the largest being PHOENIX SUNS CHARITIES INC ($110,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PHOENIX FIRE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $175,371 in grants to PHOENIX FIRE FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PHOENIX FIRE FOUNDATION?
PHOENIX SUNS CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PHOENIX FIRE FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 4 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