Florida Firefighters Charities Trust
Tallahassee, FL · EIN 59-7121270. Reported 93 grants totalling $1,670,204 to 38 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Florida Firefighters Charities Trust, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
- How spread out its giving is. 38 distinct organizations, with 11% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 82% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,743. Half of what it reported fell between $6,845 and $22,400; the smallest was $5,071 and the largest $74,395. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suncoast Professional Firefighters & Paramedics Charitable Foundation | Venice, FL | $187,806 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Greater Broward Fire Fighter Charities Inc | Lauderhill, FL | $182,638 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| St Petersburg Firefighters Charity Fund Inc | St Petersburg, FL | $182,308 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Professional Firefightersparamedics Benevolent Fund Inc | Palm Springs, FL | $146,017 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| South Florida Council of Firefighters Charities Inc | Doral, FL | $118,210 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Local 1826 Leroy Nottingham Firefighter Paramedic Benevolent F | Fort Myers, FL | $108,182 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Florida Firefighters 9TH District Benevolent Association Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $74,800 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| St Lucie County Fire Fighters Benevolent Association Inc | Fort Pierce, FL | $54,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Burnover Foundation Inc | Davie, FL | $45,048 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Stuart Firefighters Benevolent Inc | Stuart, FL | $43,554 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cape Coral Community Foundation | Cape Coral, FL | $43,234 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Special Olympics Florida Inc | Clermont, FL | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| St Johns County Firefighters Benevolent Fund Inc | St Augustine, FL | $37,780 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Polk County Firefighters Benevolent Fund Inc | Lakeland, FL | $35,529 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Cape Coral Professional Fire Fighters Benevolent Fund Inc | Cape Coral, FL | $30,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jacksonville Firefighters Charities Inc | Jacksonville, FL | $29,023 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hernando Firefighters Benevolent Relief Fund Inc | Spring Hill, FL | $28,238 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hillsborough County Firefighter Charities Inc | Tampa, FL | $26,424 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Tampa Firefighters Charity Fund Inc | Tampa, FL | $26,424 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Temple Terrace Firefighters Benevolent Inc | Temple Terr, FL | $26,424 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Muscular Dystrophy Association | Chicago, IL | $25,185 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Indian River Firefighters Benevolent Association Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $21,200 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lakeland Firefighters Benevolent Association Inc | Lakeland, FL | $15,698 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Live Like Bella Inc | Coral Gables, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Wow Center Inc | Miami, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Professional Firefighters of Marion County Benevolence Fund Inc | Ocala, FL | $14,906 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Tallahassee Professional Fire Fighters Foundation Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $13,836 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Firefighter Cancer Support Networkinc | Burbank, CA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bonita Springs Professional Fire Fighters Benevolent Fund Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Seminole County Firefighters Benevolent Association Inc | Lake Mary, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lake County Professional Firefighters Inc | Leesburg, FL | $8,688 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Firefighter Charity Alliance of Lake County Inc | Eustis, FL | $7,605 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Palm Coast Firefighter Benevolent Fund | Palm Coast, FL | $6,830 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Osceola County Professional Firefighters Benevolent Trust Inc | Windermere, FL | $5,917 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Cocoa Firefighters Benevolent Inc | Cocoa, FL | $5,700 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Nassau County Professional Firefighters Benevolent Associatio | Yulee, FL | $5,664 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Tallahassee Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Escambia County Professional Firefighters Charity Inc | Pensacola, FL | $5,336 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
24 of 38 (63%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 36 of 38 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 22 | $372,786 | $11,721 |
| 2021 | 17 | $262,010 | $10,950 |
| 2022 | 22 | $396,447 | $8,580 |
| 2023 | 32 | $638,961 | $10,627 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
98% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,743 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Florida.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Florida Firefighters Charities Trust's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 32 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 343 West Madison Street, Tallahassee, FL, 32301.
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