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SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS

SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $103,477 to it, the largest being WESTERN FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC ($103,477). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$441k
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$103k
Grants received
$765k
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%

Against its field

SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,426 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve24.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,426 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($147k) Expenses 100 ($75k) Net assets 100 ($235k)2020 Revenue 55 ($80k) Expenses 61 ($46k) Net assets 115 ($270k)2021 Revenue 174 ($256k) Expenses 224 ($168k) Net assets 152 ($357k)2022 Revenue 218 ($321k) Expenses 298 ($224k) Net assets 193 ($455k)2023 Revenue 219 ($323k) Expenses 282 ($212k) Net assets 240 ($565k)2024 Revenue 320 ($472k) Expenses 453 ($341k) Net assets 296 ($696k)2025 Revenue 300 ($441k) Expenses 494 ($371k) Net assets 326 ($765k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (300)Expenses (494)Net assets (326)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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

24% of SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,403 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$72k
19
$35k
20
$87k
21
$97k
22
$110k
23
$131k
24
$69k
25
25
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $17k → $15k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS’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

SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 1 state in all.

OR

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

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18
19
20
21
22
Alabama out of state home

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.

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.

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 SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS

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 Alabama

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS: 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 SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS?
SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $103,477 to it, the largest being WESTERN FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC ($103,477). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $103,477 in grants to SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS?
WESTERN FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $103,477 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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