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SIERRA COUNTY FIRE SAFE AND WATERSHED COUNCIL INC

SIERRA COUNTY FIRE SAFE AND WATERSHED COUNCIL INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$421k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$48k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Sierra County Fire Safe and Watershed Council Inc does

Mission

Fire safety, fuels reduction, and watershed protection for the county of seirra.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Research, write, and submit grant applications. Contracted to provide services to reduce fire fuels (preventing or limiting forest fires) and preserving watersheds.

    $387,733 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $387,733.

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 ($115k) Expenses 100 ($52k) Net assets 100 ($65k)2021 Revenue 82 ($94k) Expenses 113 ($58k) Net assets 156 ($101k)2022 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 182 ($94k) Net assets 10 ($6k)2023 Revenue 105 ($120k) Expenses 218 ($112k) Net assets 22 ($14k)2024 Revenue 367 ($421k) Expenses 751 ($388k) Net assets 74 ($48k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (367)Expenses (751)Net assets (74)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 $101k to $6k (−94%).

$65k
$101k
$6k
$14k
$48k
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

Government-grant reliance: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 98% · 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of SIERRA COUNTY FIRE SAFE AND WATERSHED COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$63k
’20
$36k
’21
−$94k
’22
$8k
’23
$34k
’24
1.5
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

Paul Cueto

Board chair-

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20202021202220232024
Listed33383
Joined·+0+0+5+0
No longer listed·0005
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of SIERRA COUNTY FIRE SAFE AND WATERSHED COUNCIL INC’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.

Where its funders are

100% of SIERRA COUNTY FIRE SAFE AND WATERSHED COUNCIL INC's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

SIERRA COUNTY FIRE SAFE AND WATERSHED COUNCIL INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · below the median
Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)38% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding SIERRA COUNTY FIRE SAFE AND WATERSHED COUNCIL INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.5M on record.

Federal$3.5M
grants $3.5Mcontracts $0
19
20
23
24
25
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$3.5M

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SIERRA COUNTY FIRE SAFE AND WATERSHED COUNCIL 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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Questions and answers

Who funds SIERRA COUNTY FIRE SAFE AND WATERSHED COUNCIL INC?
SIERRA COUNTY FIRE SAFE AND WATERSHED COUNCIL INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SIERRA COUNTY FIRE SAFE AND WATERSHED COUNCIL INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to SIERRA COUNTY FIRE SAFE AND WATERSHED COUNCIL INC.
Who is the largest funder of SIERRA COUNTY FIRE SAFE AND WATERSHED COUNCIL INC?
CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SIERRA COUNTY FIRE SAFE AND WATERSHED COUNCIL INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 1 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