Sacramento Area Firefighters Widows and Orphans Fund

Analysis

Sacramento Area Firefighters Widows and Orphans Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Sacramento, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2011, 15 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 (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Sacramento Area Firefighters Widows and Orphans Fund reported income of $74k and spending of $43k, leaving 42% of income unspent that year. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $37k to $74k (+100%), an average of +100% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 100%. Over the whole period it spent 75% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Sacramento Area Firefighters Widows and Orphans Fund sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 29th percentile, and in the 31st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kollel Tiferes Yakov Vzichron Mashe ($74k), Marlborough Rotary Charitable Endowment Inc ($74k) and Sioux County Foundation Inc ($74k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 57% and program service revenue 28% of the total. At year end it held assets of $321k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $321k.