Santa Clara Firefighters Foundation

Analysis

Santa Clara Firefighters Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Clara, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Santa Clara Firefighters Foundation reported income of $100k and spending of $88k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $344k to $100k (-71%), an average of -46% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 247%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Santa Clara Firefighters Foundation sits at the 42nd percentile: it is larger than about 42% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 37th percentile, and in the 39th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Give Joy 2 One Foundation ($100k), Jack Pribaz Foundation ($100k) and New York State Association of Realtors Disaster Relief Fun Inc ($100k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $210k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $210k.