New York · Nonprofit
ALBANY FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM
ALBANY FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,500 to it, the largest being THE WJ BARNEY FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $103k
What Albany Firefighters Museum does
Mission
Museum
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Rent
$9,000 spent76% of program spendingMuseum displays
$1,375 spent12% of program spendingPrinting, display boards
$1,514 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $11,889.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $148k to $132k (−11%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
83% of ALBANY FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
William Tobler
Chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of ALBANY FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALBANY FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 71% · 2019 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
96% of ALBANY FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ALBANY FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM's revenue fell 83% between 2018 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like ALBANY FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALBANY FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALBANY FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM?
- ALBANY FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,500 to it, the largest being THE WJ BARNEY FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALBANY FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $11,500 in grants to ALBANY FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALBANY FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM?
- THE WJ BARNEY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALBANY FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing