California · Nonprofit
STINSON BEACH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC
STINSON BEACH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,373,408 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($481,400). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $668k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $878k
What Stinson Beach Volunteer Firefighters Association Inc does
Mission
To foster harmony and good fellowship among the members of the stinson beach fire protection district and to support its members' efforts at, and the public's benefit from, fire prevention and suppression, rescue operations, emergency medical response and transport, disaster preparations and response, and public education about the foregoing within the stinson beach fire protection district.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The association provides support for the members of the stinson beach fire protection district. This can take the form of providing grants for equipment or providing supplies for the firehouse. The association also partners with the district to provide educational and informational services to the stinson beach community and surrounding areas.
$55,271 spentof which $18,456 as grants18% of program spendingThe stinson beach community has outgrown its existing fire station. In partnership with the stinson beach fire protection district, the association participated in acquiring land to address this critical need. The association received a donation of land, specifically suitable for the new facility, and cash, to assist the fire protection district in its acqusition of an adjoining plot. During 2019, the cash assistance was transferred, and the land deeded, to the district. Subesequently, the district acquired the adjoining plot, and the two parcels were combined. In 2024 the district and association kicked off a three to four year capital campaign to raise funds for construction of a new fire station.
$256,653 spentof which $256,358 as grants82% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $311,924.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $545k to $882k (+62%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of STINSON BEACH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $36k.
11 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 STINSON BEACH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 funders by total. 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
STINSON BEACH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 STINSON BEACH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 64% · 2022 37% · 2023 47% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
20% of STINSON BEACH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
91% of STINSON BEACH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $117k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
STINSON BEACH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like STINSON BEACH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STINSON BEACH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC?
- STINSON BEACH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,373,408 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($481,400). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STINSON BEACH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,373,408 in grants to STINSON BEACH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STINSON BEACH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $481,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STINSON BEACH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 15 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