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SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS

SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,369 to it, the largest being WESTERN FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC ($11,369). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$96k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$11k
Net assets
$112k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Southwestern Division of the International Association of Fire Chiefs does

Mission

To provide educational opportunities and leadership to career and volunteer chiefs, chiefs officers, and managers of emergency service organizations throughout the southwestern region of the united states, through education, information, service, vision, and representation.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Southwestern annual conference

    $109,240 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $109,240.

02The 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 ($55k) Expenses 100 ($47k) Net assets 100 ($68k)2020 Revenue 56 ($31k) Expenses 25 ($12k) Net assets 128 ($87k)2021 Revenue 134 ($74k) Expenses 99 ($46k) Net assets 169 ($114k)2022 Revenue 114 ($62k) Expenses 114 ($53k) Net assets 182 ($124k)2023 Revenue 186 ($102k) Expenses 213 ($100k) Net assets 185 ($126k)2024 Revenue 175 ($96k) Expenses 234 ($109k) Net assets 165 ($112k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (175)Expenses (234)Net assets (165)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 2020 to 2021, from $87k to $114k (+31%).

$68k
$87k
$114k
$124k
$126k
$116k
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’19
$19k
’20
$27k
’21
$9k
’22
$2k
’23
−$13k
’24
15
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.

20192020202120222023
Listed56666
Joined·+1+1+1+1
No longer listed·0111
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $6k.

Funder
'17
'19
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION OF THE INTERNATIONAL 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

SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.

OR

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

’17
’19
Texas 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−14% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education 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 SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS?
SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,369 to it, the largest being WESTERN FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC ($11,369). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $11,369 in grants to SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS?
WESTERN FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,369 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2019–2024), 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