California · Nonprofit
Ventura County Professional Firefighters Assoc Cha
Ventura County Professional Firefighters Assoc Cha (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,125 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Ventura County Professional Firefighters Assoc Cha has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,857 philanthropy 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.
- Sherwood Country Club Charitable Foundationlocal
- Ventura County Community Foundationlocal
- Food Share Inclocal
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.
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.
100% of Ventura County Professional Firefighters Assoc Cha’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $6k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 Ventura County Professional Firefighters Assoc Cha’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
Ventura County Professional Firefighters Assoc Cha leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% 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
99% 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 Ventura County Professional Firefighters Assoc Cha.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 99% · 2022 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
99% of Ventura County Professional Firefighters Assoc Cha'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 $125 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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.
- Sherwood Country Club Charitable FoundationlocalCA · funds 52 organizations near you
- Ventura County Community FoundationlocalCA · funds 180 organizations near you
- Food Share InclocalCA · funds 16 organizations near you
- Martin V and Martha K Smith FoundationlocalCA · funds 13 organizations near you
- Told FoundationlocalCA · funds 17 organizations near you
- Meadowlark Service LeaguelocalCA · funds 21 organizations near you
- Ventura County Credit UnionlocalCA · funds 15 organizations near you
- The Tyrone Heritage FoundationlocalDE · funds 19 organizations near you
- Simi Valley Hosp and Hlth Care Services dba Adventist Health Simi ValleylocalCA · funds 14 organizations near you
- Cassar Family FoundationlocalCA · funds 14 organizations near you
- Oxnard Monday ClublocalCA · funds 29 organizations near you
- LIVINGSTON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION co MUSICK PEELER & GARRETT LLPlocalCA · funds 17 organizations near you
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% 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 Ventura County Professional Firefighters Assoc Cha: 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 Ventura County Professional Firefighters Assoc Cha?
- Ventura County Professional Firefighters Assoc Cha (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,125 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Ventura County Professional Firefighters Assoc Cha have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $18,125 in grants to Ventura County Professional Firefighters Assoc Cha.
- Who is the largest funder of Ventura County Professional Firefighters Assoc Cha?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ventura County Professional Firefighters Assoc Cha 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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