Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$2,839,627

Total expenses

$3,038,401

Contributions and grants received

$896,934

Grants paid

$103,850

Program service revenue

$1,330,659

Investment income

$1,162

Other revenue

$610,872

Total assets, end of year

$1,911,869

Total liabilities, end of year

$961,021

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$950,848

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$2,962,666

Management and general expenses

$75,735

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$2,962,666

Program services were 97.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• THE ASSOCIATION PROVIDES FOR THE PROMOTION, RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF CODES FOR THE PURPOSE OF PREVENTING, SUPPRESSING AND EXTINGUISHING FIRES.

  Expenses $1,555,554 · Revenue $788,343

• DAILY DISPATCH AND BLUE BULLETIN - COMPILED AND DISTRIBUTED A FREE SUBSCRIPTION-BASED, STATE-SPECIFIC ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER TO OVER 70,000 FIRE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT SERVICE MEMBERS EACH WEEKDAY TO PROVIDE INFORMATION RELATED TO MEMBER SUPPORT, AND RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF FIRE PREVENTION CODES.

  Expenses $368,045 · Revenue $476,030

• FIRE RESCUE GROUP PURCHASING ORGANIZATION - A NATIONAL GROUP PURCHASING PROGRAM AVAILABLE TO ALL 50 STATES WHICH BRINGS COST SAVINGS TO FIRE DEPARTMENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. ROYALTIES GIVEN BACK TO THE STATES AND DIVISIONS TOTALED $103,850 IN 2022.

  Expenses $292,529 · Grants $103,850 · Revenue $608,940

• THE WILDFIRE INITIATIVE IS DIRECTED BY THE WILDFIRE POLICY COMMITTEE TO ENGAGE IN ACTIVITIES THAT IMPROVE THE RESPONSE CAPABILITIES OF AMERICA'S FIRE SERVICE TO CATASTROPHIC WILDFIRES. THIS IS DONE THROUGH TARGETED EVENTS, INFORMATION SHARING, AND HIGH LEVEL SUPPORT OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES. THE PROGRAM IS SUPPORTED THROUGH A CONSULTING SERVICE THAT PROVIDES FIRE SERVICE INSIGHT TO PUBLIC SAFETY COMPANIES. RETIRED FIRE CHIEFS ARE HIRED TO PROVIDE THESE SERVICES AS CONTRACTORS.

  Expenses $113,243

• RAPID, SCALABLE OUTDOOR AND INDOOR MACHINE LEARNING BASED MAPPING OF FIRE DEPARTMENT PRE-PLANS: WFCA'S PROJECT WILL TEST AND VALIDATE THE APPLICATION OF THE GEOCAM VISUAL MAPPING SYSTEM TO PROVE ITS FEASIBILITY TO AUTOMATE CITY-SCALE FIRE PRE-PLAN MAPS ACROSS COMPLEX OUTDOOR AND INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS. THEY WILL DEVELOP A MACHINE-LEARNING-BASED PRODUCT AND SERVICE THAT WILL PROVIDE GEO-LOCATED IMAGERY OUTDOORS AND INDOORS, SUPPORTING REMOTE AND FREQUENT VIRTUAL TRAINING FOR DEPARTMENT MEMBERS AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE PREPLANS ON CRITICAL STRUCTURES WITHIN A CITY. IT WILL ALSO ENABLE PARTICIPATING DEPARTMENTS TO OBTAIN NEW INFORMATION ABOUT STRUCTURAL CHANGES ON A REGULAR BASIS TO IMPROVE ON-DEMAND PREPLANNING.

  Expenses $227,688

• MULTI-STATE ALIGNMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY ON PARCEL AND COMMUNITY LEVEL MITIGATIONS IN THE WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE: THE PURPOSE OF THIS GRANT IS TO ESTABLISH KEY STAKEHOLDER ALIGNMENT IN FOUR WESTERN STATES ON PARCEL AND COMMUNITY LEVEL MITIGATIONS THAT MATTER IN THE WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE (WUI). THOSE KEY STAKEHOLDERS ARE THE STATE FIRE MARSHAL (OR WARDEN), THE STATE INSURANCE REGULATORY OFFICE, THE STATE/REGIONAL INSURANCE INDUSTRY, AND THE STATE FIRE CHIEF'S ASSOCIATION.

  Expenses $38,473

• WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE FIRE RESPONSE RATING: BY DECEMBER 2024, A COMPREHENSIVE RATING METHODOLOGY OF A WUI COMMUNITY'S INITIAL RESPONSE CAPABILITY TO PREVENT CONFLAGRATION BY DISRUPTING FIRE SPREAD INTO A COMMUNITY FROM THE IMMEDIATE VEGETATIVE LANDSCAPE, AND WITHIN THE COMMUNITY FROM STRUCTURE TO STRUCTURE SPREAD, WILL HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED AND PILOTED AS A CATASTROPHE RISK AND GRAPH THEORY MODEL MITIGATION VARIABLE AGAINST PROPERTY LOSS.

  Expenses $7,967

• THE ORGANIZATION ALSO INVESTED IN CREATING A FIRE MAP FOR THE PUBLIC AVAILABLE AT THEIR SITE: WWW.WFCA.COM/FIRE-MAP. THE WESTERN FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION (WFCA) FIRE MAP DEPICTS ACTIVE AND RECENT WILDLAND FIRES IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES AND ALASKA. THE FIRE MAP DRAWS NEAR REAL-TIME 911 DISPATCH CALL DATA FROM PULSEPOINT. EMERGING AND ONGOING WILDLAND FIRE LOCATION AND BOUNDARY DATA ARE PROVIDED BY THE NATIONAL INTERAGENCY FIRE CENTER IRWIN FEEDS. FIRIS (CALIFORNIA ONLY) PROVIDES EARLY FIRE PERIMETER AND 3 HOUR FORECASTING MODELS. FIRE DISPATCH AND LOCATION DATA ARE APPROXIMATE AND NO WARRANTY IS GIVEN AS TO THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE DATA.

  Expenses $359,167

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

• INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS

  $25,000

  PASS-THROUGH OF FEES FROM VENDOR SALES

• SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS

  $15,000

  PASS-THROUGH OF FEES FROM VENDOR SALES

• CALIFORNIA FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION

  $8,000

  PASS-THROUGH OF FEES FROM VENDOR SALES

• GREAT LAKES DIVISION

  $6,500

  PASS-THROUGH OF FEES FROM VENDOR SALES

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

13 November 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202323199349328262

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