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BRILLION FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION

BRILLION FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,550 to it, the largest being HIDDEN TREASURES THRIFT SHOPPE INC ($5,200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$67k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$6k
Net assets
$99k
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Brillion Fire & Rescue Association does

Mission

To provide the highest level of emergency services including to all who live, work, visit or invest in the brillion & maple grove area communities.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Providing volunteer firefighters with the training, education, and fire equipment necessary to deliver the highest level of emergency services to the local community and surrounding areas.

    $25,900 spent
    98% of program spending
  2. Awarding one memorial scholarship each year to a student in the community who majors in one of the following fields: emt, police science, nursing or medical doctor. Priorty is given to students majoring in fire science. Once awarded, students must maintain a certain gpa in college to be eligible for the one-time scholarship payment.

    $400 spentof which $400 as grants
    2% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $26,300.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($131k) Expenses 100 ($36k) Net assets 100 ($95k)2023 Revenue 86 ($112k) Expenses 193 ($68k) Net assets 146 ($139k)2024 Revenue 51 ($67k) Expenses 299 ($106k) Net assets 104 ($99k)
202220232024
Revenue (51)Expenses (299)Net assets (104)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 2022 to 2023, from $95k to $140k (+46%).

$95k
$140k
$100k
202220232024
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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of BRILLION FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,797 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$95k
’22
$44k
’23
−$40k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $100.

From the IRS filings of BRILLION FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION’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

BRILLION FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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

94% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BRILLION FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION.

94%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

98% of BRILLION FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

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

BRILLION FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION's revenue fell 49% between 2022 and 2024.

Operating margin−60% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−29% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,076 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRILLION FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION: 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 BRILLION FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION?
BRILLION FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,550 to it, the largest being HIDDEN TREASURES THRIFT SHOPPE INC ($5,200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BRILLION FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $5,550 in grants to BRILLION FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION.
Who is the largest funder of BRILLION FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION?
HIDDEN TREASURES THRIFT SHOPPE INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BRILLION FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION 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.

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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 2022–2024), 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