2025 Grant News

The Lieutenant Joseph P. DiBernardo Memorial Foundation is honored to receive your support for our charitable Foundation. We, together with other donors and sponsors, will Partner together to purchase Personal Life Safety Rope Systems, Safety equipment and training for those Fire Departments that do not have the financial ability to provide for themselves. 100% of all monies raised is used for the purpose of funding the Grants we award.

Our goal will be that no firefighter should have to leap for his life out a window for lack of a Personal Safety Rope, as the FDNY firefighters had to do on "Black Sunday." Our goal is also to train as many firefighters as we can with the best instructors in America. We started our Foundation in remembrance of Lt. Joseph P. DiBernardo who died along with two other brave FDNY members as result of injuries suffered at the "Black Sunday" fire in The Bronx, New York City.

With your assistance, our Foundation, which is made up of all volunteers and friends of Joey, will be on firm financial footing to continue our mission that " Everybody Goes Home" from the fire. Looking forward to your continued support of our Foundation and our goal. In 2025 we will provide 13 Fire Departments across the country a total of $242,682.10 for the purchase of 323 Personal Safety Systems along with the necessary requisite training. To date we have given a total of $1,531,171.00 in Grants to 125 Departments in 28 States and purchased 2.245 Safety Systems along with the necessary training and trained over 3,662 firefighters at our Annual Seminars in New York and Texas.

With deep respect,

Joseph G. DiBernardo, Deputy Chief, FDNY, Ret.

Commander South Bronx/Harlem

President, Lt. Joseph P. DiBernardo Memorial Foundation