Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION
THE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $432,916 to it, the largest being American Hospital Association Inc ($287,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 416 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 416 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared funders
- Louis P Ciminelli Foundationportfolio match
- Fisher Global Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
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: 2017 19% · 2018 31% · 2019 16% · 2020 39% · 2021 35% · 2022 36% · 2023 31% · 2024 57% · 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of THE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (71% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $32k → $30k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.6M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Fire Protection Association). These are real filings, and they are not money THE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH 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
THE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 85%; 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 THE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 55% · 2021 73% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
0% of THE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% 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 FY2022, 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
THE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 99 organizations that share your funders
- Louis P Ciminelli Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fisher Global Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Milbank Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blue Ridge Skyline Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- AP Kirby Jr Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Institute for Feed Education and Research Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Walker Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Federal Focus Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Broad Institute Incshared fundersMA · backs 73 organizations that share your funders
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared fundersDC · backs 89 organizations that share your funders
- National Multiple Sclerosis Societyshared fundersNY · backs 69 organizations that share your funders
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.
Government funding THE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.2M on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$8.7M
- Department of Commerce$1.6M
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.
Organizations like THE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- National Fire Protection Association · exempt
- Nfpa Global Solutions Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION: 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.
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 THE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- THE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $432,916 to it, the largest being American Hospital Association Inc ($287,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $432,916 in grants to THE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- American Hospital Association Inc is the largest funder on record, with $287,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 8funders 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