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SFPE EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATION INC

EIN 04-2701210 GAITHERSBURG, MD

Revenue 2025
$573,895
Expenses 2025
$595,321

Program services were 71.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
3000
Street
9711 WASHINGTONIAN BLVD STE 380

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

To enhance the scientific understanding of fire and its interaction with the social, natural, and built environments. Research grants are awarded to students, faculty, universities, and companies. The Foundation also distributes professional awards, competitive scholarships, and develops educational content.

  • Research grants were awarded to students, universities, and consultants to advance the science and practice of fire protection engineering; educational content was delivered through in-person conferences and trainings, as well as online.

    Expenses $427,447 · Grants $192,264 · Revenue $147,841

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Peter Senez

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Virginia R Charter

    Governor

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Erica Kuligowski

    Governor

    Total calculated
    $1,500
    From this org
    $1,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Maria B Marks

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shamim Rashid-Sumar

    Governor until 4/30

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Noah Ryder

    Governor until 4/30

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leonard J Ramo

    Governor

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Debbie Scott

    Secretary-Treasurer 9/9

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Manuel R Silva Jr

    Governor until 4/30

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chris Jelenewicz

    Secretary until 9/9

    Total calculated
    $232,767
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $198,601
    Other
    $34,166
    Hours/week
    2 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $198,601 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $12,189 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $21,977 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $232,767 related

  • Ann E Jeffers

    Governor until 4/30

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Steve Kerber

    Governor

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chris LaFleur

    Governor

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sean Donohue

    Governor

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sean Cutting

    Governor beginning 5/1

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jonathan Hodges

    Governor beginning 5/1

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Xinyan Huang

    Governor beginning 5/1

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Phil Friday

    Governor

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lainey Liotta

    Governor

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Margaret McNamee

    Governor

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bryan Klein

    Governor beginning 5/1

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leslie Marshall

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $138,429
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $130,594
    Other
    $7,835
    Hours/week
    40 + 2 related

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $573,895
    Expenses
    $595,321
    Contributions
    $409,798
    Grants paid
    $192,264
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $359,050
    Expenses
    $439,776
    Contributions
    $344,935
    Grants paid
    $247,601
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $349,884
    Expenses
    $291,168
    Contributions
    $339,259
    Grants paid
    $136,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $182,249
    Expenses
    $135,463
    Assets (EOY)
    $901,393

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $204,063
    Expenses
    $62,599
    Assets (EOY)
    $767,022

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $198,293
    Expenses
    $120,992
    Assets (EOY)
    $617,382

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $166,615
    Expenses
    $29,656
    Assets (EOY)
    $434,108

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $44,248
    Expenses
    $53,763
    Assets (EOY)
    $321,778

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $64,361
    Expenses
    $46,638
    Assets (EOY)
    $297,746

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $51,563
    Expenses
    $81,490
    Assets (EOY)
    $297,909

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $67,469
    Expenses
    $21,905
    Assets (EOY)
    $314,888

  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $98,007
    Expenses
    $94,770
    Assets (EOY)
    $316,324

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $44,963
    Expenses
    $14,214
    Assets (EOY)
    $260,086

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

  • Frederick Community College

    $64,600

    2023 Emergency management and public safety

  • Code Red Consultants LLC

    $49,500

    2023 Research Project: "BIM Integration Research Project"

  • Halliwell Engineering Associates LLC

    $33,482

    2025 SFPE WUI Advanced Cirriculum Development: "Advanced Training Topics in WUI Fire Risk Assessment & Mitigation"

  • Code Red Consultants LLC

    $31,565

    2025 Research Project: "Engineering Risk Consultant for FEMA-Funded WUI Project - Beyond Parcel-Level Risk Assessment & Mitigation: Engaging Fire Service & Community Stakeholders"

  • FireTox LLC

    $30,000

    2023 Research Project: "Environmental and Health Impacts of Thermal Runaway Events in Outdoor Lithium-Ion Battery Energy Storage System Installations"

  • Meacham Associates

    $30,000

    2022 Research Project: "Risk Assessment Framework for Sustainable and Fire-Resilient Buildings"

  • Carmel Software

    $30,000

    2022 Research Project: "BIM Integration Research Project"

  • Engineered Fire Systems Inc

    $26,867

    2025 Research Project: "Engineering Risk Consultant for FEMA-Funded WUI Project - Beyond Parcel-Level Risk Assessment & Mitigation: Engaging Fire Service & Community Stakeholders"

  • Jensen Hughes

    $17,500

    2025 Research Project: "Engineering Risk Consultant for FEMA-Funded WUI Project - Beyond Parcel-Level Risk Assessment & Mitigation: Engaging Fire Service & Community Stakeholders"

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.