California · Nonprofit
URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC
URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC (California) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,769,286 to it, the largest being TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ($1,112,500). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $7.8M
- Net assets
- $817k
What Urban Association of Forestry and Fire Professionals Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to increase wildfire personnel from non-traditional and underrepresented communities, providing them the training, skills, resources, and experiences needed to secure gainful employment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In fye 06/30/2025 ("fiscal year"), the urban association of forestry and fire professionals (also known as the forestry and fire recruitment program "ffrp") conducted in-reach across california to recruit & prepare incarcerated firefighters in california's conservation camps ("fire camps") to use their skills professionally upon release. Ffrp provides information and career transition support to incarcerated firefighters, as well as other justice-impacted or marginalized individuals to help them access careers in forestry and firefighting. In the fiscal year, ffrp ran two primary programs: 1)ffrps 8-week career training program, offered in four separate cohorts with paid on-the-job training, wildfire & public safety certificates, and comprehensive case management services. 2) ffrp's fee for service program provides on-the- job training for participants in completing wildfire prevention and fire reduction services to help communities become wildfire resilient. 88 people participated in these programs, with 78 graduates. As a result, several dozen individuals were placed in full-time fireand forestry careers during the course of the year. In addition to its primary programs, ffrp…
$2,848,761 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,848,761.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $531k to $2.1M (+287%).
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: 2019 40% · 2020 1% · 2021 13% · 2022 21% · 2023 34% · 2024 58% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (70% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Royal Ramey
CEO
Board chair
Bishop Lj Guillory
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 19 funders, grant income rose $250k → $1.6M.
17 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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
URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
70% 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 URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 59% · 2021 31% · 2022 19% · 2023 25% — 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
0% of URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
58% of URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 513 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 513 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS 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 URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC?
- URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC (California) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,769,286 to it, the largest being TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ($1,112,500). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $7,769,286 in grants to URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC?
- TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY is the largest funder on record, with $1,112,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS 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.
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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 53 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing