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WASHINGTON STATE COUNCIL OF FIRE FIGHTERS EMPLOYEE BENEFIT TRUST

WASHINGTON STATE COUNCIL OF FIRE FIGHTERS EMPLOYEE BENEFIT TRUST (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $80,838,582 to it, the largest being Southern CA Firefighters Benefit Trust ($80,838,582). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$59M
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$81M
Grants received
$423M
Net assets
0/1 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

WASHINGTON STATE COUNCIL OF FIRE FIGHTERS EMPLOYEE BENEFIT TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 126 membership benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin78% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 126 membership benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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 ($13M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($98M)2018 Revenue 121 ($15M) Expenses 123 ($2.2M) Net assets 118 ($115M)2019 Revenue 122 ($16M) Expenses 171 ($3.1M) Net assets 135 ($132M)2020 Revenue 147 ($19M) Expenses 188 ($3.4M) Net assets 153 ($149M)2021 Revenue 203 ($26M) Expenses 256 ($4.7M) Net assets 209 ($204M)2022 Revenue 187 ($24M) Expenses 311 ($5.7M) Net assets 188 ($184M)2023 Revenue 234 ($30M) Expenses 409 ($7.5M) Net assets 221 ($216M)2024 Revenue 366 ($47M) Expenses 589 ($11M) Net assets 359 ($351M)2025 Revenue 465 ($59M) Expenses 730 ($13M) Net assets 433 ($423M)
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Revenue (465)Expenses (730)Net assets (433)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

0% of WASHINGTON STATE COUNCIL OF FIRE FIGHTERS EMPLOYEE BENEFIT TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (0% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 427 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$11M
17
$13M
18
$13M
19
$15M
20
$21M
21
$18M
22
$22M
23
$36M
24
$46M
25
5.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of WASHINGTON STATE COUNCIL OF FIRE FIGHTERS EMPLOYEE BENEFIT TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

100% of WASHINGTON STATE COUNCIL OF FIRE FIGHTERS EMPLOYEE BENEFIT TRUST's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

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 WASHINGTON STATE COUNCIL OF FIRE FIGHTERS EMPLOYEE BENEFIT TRUST

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 California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Governance

13
board members
31%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 138 related entities

  • Aberdeen Fire Department · exempt
  • Anaconda Fire Department · exempt
  • Anchorage Fire Department · exempt
  • Bellinghamwhatcom County Fire Department · exempt
  • Benton County Fire District #4 · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WASHINGTON STATE COUNCIL OF FIRE FIGHTERS EMPLOYEE BENEFIT TRUST: 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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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 WASHINGTON STATE COUNCIL OF FIRE FIGHTERS EMPLOYEE BENEFIT TRUST?
WASHINGTON STATE COUNCIL OF FIRE FIGHTERS EMPLOYEE BENEFIT TRUST (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $80,838,582 to it, the largest being Southern CA Firefighters Benefit Trust ($80,838,582). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WASHINGTON STATE COUNCIL OF FIRE FIGHTERS EMPLOYEE BENEFIT TRUST have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $80,838,582 in grants to WASHINGTON STATE COUNCIL OF FIRE FIGHTERS EMPLOYEE BENEFIT TRUST.
Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON STATE COUNCIL OF FIRE FIGHTERS EMPLOYEE BENEFIT TRUST?
Southern CA Firefighters Benefit Trust is the largest funder on record, with $80,838,582 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WASHINGTON STATE COUNCIL OF FIRE FIGHTERS EMPLOYEE BENEFIT TRUST 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing