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CACHE LA POUDRE FIRE AND EMERGENCY GROUP INC

CACHE LA POUDRE FIRE AND EMERGENCY GROUP INC (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,958 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO ($45,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$49k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$84k
Net assets
$371k
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 51%
01What it does

What Cache la Poudre Fire and Emergency Group Inc does

Mission

To provide resources for the Poudre Canyon Fire Protection District, ie for fire station and snowplow

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To assist the Poudre Canyon Fire Protection District lease a new fire station.

    $40,540 spent
    69% of program spending
  2. Purchased stump grinder & other equipment for a wildfire tool library

    $12,000 spent
    20% of program spending
  3. Hold an appreciation dinner to thank volunteers for their service

    $1,955 spent
    3% of program spending
  4. Tax return, audit and office expense

    $4,418 spent
    7% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $58,913.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($152k) Expenses 100 ($65k) Net assets 100 ($420k)2021 Revenue 73 ($111k) Expenses 105 ($69k) Net assets 110 ($463k)2022 Revenue 45 ($69k) Expenses 175 ($114k) Net assets 100 ($418k)2023 Revenue 35 ($53k) Expenses 158 ($103k) Net assets 88 ($369k)2024 Revenue 46 ($70k) Expenses 89 ($58k) Net assets 91 ($381k)2025 Revenue 32 ($49k) Expenses 91 ($59k) Net assets 88 ($371k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (32)Expenses (91)Net assets (88)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 2021 to 2022, from $1.8M to $1.6M (−9%).

$1.8M
$1.8M
$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.5M
$1.5M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 7% · 2021 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

12% of CACHE LA POUDRE FIRE AND EMERGENCY GROUP INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$87k
’20
$43k
’21
−$45k
’22
−$49k
’23
$12k
’24
−$10k
’25
26
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed666655
Joined·+1+0+1+0+4
No longer listed·10114
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $259.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CACHE LA POUDRE FIRE AND EMERGENCY GROUP 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.

How concentrated its funding is

CACHE LA POUDRE FIRE AND EMERGENCY GROUP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

70% 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 CACHE LA POUDRE FIRE AND EMERGENCY GROUP INC.

54%
largest funder
93%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 79% · 2021 94% · 2022 99% · 2023 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

70% of CACHE LA POUDRE FIRE AND EMERGENCY GROUP INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states.

NE
GA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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

CACHE LA POUDRE FIRE AND EMERGENCY GROUP INC's revenue fell 68% between 2020 and 2025.

Operating margin−19% · below the median
Months of reserve25.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−20% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like CACHE LA POUDRE FIRE AND EMERGENCY GROUP INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

35%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CO

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Questions and answers

Who funds CACHE LA POUDRE FIRE AND EMERGENCY GROUP INC?
CACHE LA POUDRE FIRE AND EMERGENCY GROUP INC (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,958 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO ($45,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CACHE LA POUDRE FIRE AND EMERGENCY GROUP INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $83,958 in grants to CACHE LA POUDRE FIRE AND EMERGENCY GROUP INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CACHE LA POUDRE FIRE AND EMERGENCY GROUP INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO is the largest funder on record, with $45,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CACHE LA POUDRE FIRE AND EMERGENCY GROUP INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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