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California disaster relief organizations

There are 1,075 disaster relief organizations in California. Combined, these Californian disaster relief organizations employ 977 people, earn more than $425 million in revenue each year, and have assets of $675 million.
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Types of disaster relief organizations in California

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
Disaster relief organizations
 
1,075
 
$424,656,799
Volunteer firefighters companies
 
454
 
$87,463,048
Search and rescue squads
 
139
 
$19,171,567
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Disaster relief organizations by major California cities

Metro areaNonprofitsRevenues
Los Angeles
 
220
 
$145,627,937
San Francisco
 
107
 
$117,468,532
Riverside
 
87
 
$6,600,725
Sacramento
 
82
 
$23,788,054
San Diego
 
76
 
$8,669,504
Santa Rosa
 
54
 
$10,319,385
San Jose
 
37
 
$3,291,951
Oxnard
 
26
 
$9,145,415
Redding
 
25
 
$1,154,819
Santa Maria
 
22
 
$19,034,314
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Job trends for California disaster relief organizations

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
 
238
1-10
 
53
11-25
 
18
26-100
 
7
101 to 1,000
 
1
1,000+
 
0
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Sizes of disaster relief organizations in California

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
 
416
$250k to $1M
 
91
$1M to $5M
 
33
$5M to $25M
 
14
$25M to $100M
 
3
$100M+
 
0
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Directory of disaster relief organizations in California

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Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Berkeley ER Initiative collaborates with universities and offers grants to support long-term survival of humanity.
Revenue
$6.9m
Assets
$6.0m
Employees
17
EIN
81-4820272
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Los Angeles Police Foundation (LAPF)

The Los Angeles Police Foundation is dedicated to preventing crime, saving lives and making their community a better and safer place to live and work by assisting the Los Angeles Police Department with resources not available from the city.
Revenue
$7.9m
Assets
$17.9m
Employees
3
EIN
95-4700442
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Operation USA

Operation USA provides disaster relief and long-term recovery support to communities worldwide, partnering with agencies and providing aid supplies.
Revenue
$6.8m
Assets
$2.9m
Employees
6
EIN
95-3504080
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Team Rubicon USA (TR)

Team Rubicon's mission is to unite the skills and experiences of military veterans with first responders to rapidly deploy emergency response teams.
Revenue
$51.4m
Assets
$56.1m
Employees
223
EIN
27-1720480
IRS type
501(c)(3)

National Disaster Search Dog Foundation

Rescues and trains dogs to find people buried in disasters. Partners with first responders. Located in Santa Paula, CA.
Revenue
$6.8m
Assets
$39.0m
Employees
49
EIN
77-0412509
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Napa Communities Firewise Foundation

The Napa Communities Firewise Foundation reduces wildfire risk through fuel reduction and community education in Napa County.
Revenue
$6.9m
Assets
$10.4m
Employees
8
EIN
26-0147748
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Humboldt Area Foundation

Humboldt Area Foundation encourages generosity, leadership and inclusion to strengthen communities. Supports Covid-19 & disaster response and resilience funds.
Revenue
$14.9m
Assets
$160.1m
Employees
51
EIN
23-7310660
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Butte County Fire Safe Council

Butte County Fire Safe Council provides wildfire safety through education and hazard mitigation, including RAP for defensible space clearance.
Revenue
$5.9m
Assets
$2.4m
Employees
33
EIN
10-0004010
IRS type
501(c)(3)

California Fire Safe Council (CFSC)

California Fire Safe Council's mission is to "Mobilize Californians to protect their homes, communities and environment from wildfires".
Revenue
$8.2m
Assets
$3.7m
Employees
21
EIN
75-3078419
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Shelterbox USA

Shelterbox USA provides shelter, warmth, and dignity to people made homeless by natural disasters and crises worldwide.
Revenue
$14.1m
Assets
$6.2m
Employees
26
EIN
20-0471604
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Lassen Fire Safe Council

Lassen Fire Safe Council mobilizes Californians to prevent fires in their homes, neighborhoods, and communities through contracts and community protection plans.
Revenue
$7.6m
Assets
$7.4m
Employees
8
EIN
13-4209663
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Fire Safe Council of Nevada County

Fire Safe Council of Nevada County creates Firewise Communities and educates on emergency preparedness to prevent catastrophic wildfires while networking with other councils.
Revenue
$6.1m
Assets
$3.8m
Employees
67
EIN
94-3317612
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation

Supports LA Fire Department with equipment, training and public outreach programs to supplement city resources.
Revenue
$3.5m
Assets
$10.9m
Employees
7
EIN
27-2007326
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Woodside-Portola Valley Fire Protection Foundation

The mission of the Woodside-Portola Valley Fire Protection Foundation, Inc. (con sch o) (referred to as the Fire Foundation) is to augment the woodside Fire Protection district (wfpd) budget for up-to-date equipment, facilties, Fire prevention and trainin....
Revenue
$10.4m
Assets
$11.2m
Employees
0
EIN
27-0815321
IRS type
501(c)(3)

LACounty Regional Training Ctr

LACounty Regional Training Ctr trains public service employees in technology and supports agencies during emergency situations and natural disasters.
Revenue
$809.0k
Assets
$245.0k
Employees
0
EIN
80-0672086
IRS type
501(c)(3)

GeoHazards International

To end preventable death and suffering from natural disasters. We help the world's most vulnerable communities prepare for earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, and climate hazards.
Revenue
$1.9m
Assets
$1.9m
Employees
6
EIN
76-0404723
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Projectcamp

Projectcamp provides pop-up day camps for children impacted by natural disasters, offering social-emotional support and emergency preparedness training for volunteers.
Revenue
$895.3k
Assets
$1.0m
Employees
11
EIN
84-4640242
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Ai for Good Foundation

Ai for Good Foundation innovates tech and economics to solve human challenges, impact lives, respond to disasters, and track climate solutions.
Revenue
$1.1m
Assets
$137.0k
Employees
0
EIN
81-1631000
IRS type
501(c)(3)

North Bay Fire

North Bay Fire (organization) is organized and operated exclusively for Fire prevention and suppression purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3)of the internal revenue code.
Revenue
$2.8m
Assets
$3.9m
Employees
0
EIN
94-2774503
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Heart of Compassion Distribution

Rehabilitation home providing a fresh start for men, distributing over 12.7 million pounds of food and goods to improve lives.
Revenue
$28.4m
Assets
$2.4m
Employees
2
EIN
42-1573926
IRS type
501(c)(3)
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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF with the IRS. We collect and aggregate this information from OCR'd paper taxreturns, XML e-file taxreturns, IRS-provided extract, the Business Master File, and Cause IQ secret sauce for data cleaning, categorization, classification, analytics, etc.
This category corresponds to the "M20: Disaster Preparedness and Relief Service" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.
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