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Tucson Firefighters Benevolent Association Inc

Tucson Firefighters Benevolent Association Inc (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,250 to it, the largest being PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund ($22,844). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$206k
Revenue FY2025
4
Funders on record
$40k
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%

Against its field

Tucson Firefighters Benevolent Association Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · above the median
Months of reserve45.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education 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 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($130k) Expenses 100 ($96k) Net assets 100 ($302k)2018 Revenue 508 ($663k) Expenses 162 ($156k) Net assets 268 ($809k)2019 Revenue 585 ($763k) Expenses 132 ($127k) Net assets 499 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 185 ($241k) Expenses 119 ($115k) Net assets 541 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 54 ($71k) Expenses 151 ($145k) Net assets 526 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 97 ($126k) Expenses 132 ($127k) Net assets 526 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 148 ($193k) Expenses 199 ($192k) Net assets 525 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 153 ($200k) Expenses 218 ($210k) Net assets 522 ($1.6M)2025 Revenue 158 ($206k) Expenses 175 ($168k) Net assets 534 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (158)Expenses (175)Net assets (534)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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 12% · 2023 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

121% of Tucson Firefighters Benevolent Association Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,851 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$34k
17
$507k
18
$636k
19
$127k
20
$74k
21
$1k
22
$1k
23
$10k
24
$37k
25
45
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $23k → $16.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)70% 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 Tucson Firefighters Benevolent Association 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.

How concentrated its funding is

Tucson Firefighters Benevolent Association Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 Tucson Firefighters Benevolent Association Inc.

57%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100%broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

70% of Tucson Firefighters Benevolent 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 $12k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Arizona funders.

AZ

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

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 Tucson Firefighters Benevolent Association Inc

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 Arizona

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

41% of spending goes to programs.

Program 41%Management 59%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
9143%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Tucson Firefighters Benevolent Association 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 Tucson Firefighters Benevolent Association Inc?
Tucson Firefighters Benevolent Association Inc (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,250 to it, the largest being PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund ($22,844). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Tucson Firefighters Benevolent Association Inc have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $40,250 in grants to Tucson Firefighters Benevolent Association Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Tucson Firefighters Benevolent Association Inc?
PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund is the largest funder on record, with $22,844 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Tucson Firefighters Benevolent Association Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 4funders 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