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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $202k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $18k
- Net assets
- $52k
What Ventura County Professional Firefighters Assoc Cha does
Mission
Give back to the community through contributions to local, state, and national organizations. Provide resources necessary for Ventura County community awareness and safety education and programs, and provide support and assistance to fellow fire departments and members.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Support of Non Profit Fundraisers and Events including Battle of the Badges
$118,729 spent60% of program spendingCharitable Contributions and For The Troops
$78,220 spent40% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $196,949.
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 2019 to 2020, from $11k to $52k (+375%).
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.
Against its field
Ventura County Professional Firefighters Assoc Cha has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Ventura County Professional Firefighters Assoc Cha
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
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.
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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.
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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 2018–2025), and the filings of 3 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