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BLOOMINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC

BLOOMINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $300 to it, the largest being ALLIANT ENERGY FOUNDATION INC ($300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$190k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$300
Net assets
$308k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Bloomington Fire Department Inc does

Mission

Provided fire & rescue services for bloomington & surrounding area.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. To provide fire & rescue service for the community of bloomington, wi & surrounding area.

    $55,882 spent
    41% of program spending

  2. Bloominton fire dept inc., an organization described in section 501c(3) operates a fire & rescue for the community & surrounding area. All funds collected were used for fire & rescue services.

    $78,860 spent
    59% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $134,742.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($115k) Expenses 100 ($132k) Net assets 100 ($472k)2018 Revenue 91 ($105k) Expenses 105 ($138k) Net assets 93 ($439k)2019 Revenue 207 ($238k) Expenses 141 ($185k) Net assets 104 ($492k)2020 Revenue 94 ($109k) Expenses 164 ($215k) Net assets 81 ($385k)2021 Revenue 140 ($161k) Expenses 176 ($232k) Net assets 66 ($314k)2022 Revenue 116 ($134k) Expenses 153 ($202k) Net assets 52 ($246k)2023 Revenue 165 ($191k) Expenses 143 ($189k) Net assets 53 ($248k)2024 Revenue 165 ($190k) Expenses 98 ($130k) Net assets 65 ($308k)
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Revenue (165)Expenses (98)Net assets (65)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $542k to $721k (+33%).

$575k
$542k
$721k
$589k
$518k
$425k
$370k
$308k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 7% · 2019 47% · 2020 8% · 2021 23% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

12% of BLOOMINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,485 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$16k
’17
−$33k
’18
$53k
’19
−$107k
’20
−$71k
’21
−$68k
’22
$2k
’23
$60k
’24
3.2
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

201720182019202020212022
Listed333333
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·00000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of BLOOMINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’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.

Where its funders are

100% of BLOOMINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BLOOMINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin32% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding BLOOMINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250k on record.

Federal$250k
grants $250kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Homeland Security$250k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like BLOOMINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC

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 Wisconsin

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Nationally

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLOOMINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: 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 BLOOMINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
BLOOMINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $300 to it, the largest being ALLIANT ENERGY FOUNDATION INC ($300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BLOOMINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $300 in grants to BLOOMINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.
Who is the largest funder of BLOOMINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
ALLIANT ENERGY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BLOOMINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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