Illinois · Nonprofit
CHAMPAIGN FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND
CHAMPAIGN FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,428 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY ($20,428). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $93k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $247k
What Champaign Firefighters Benevolent Fund does
Mission
Provide support to the family members of fallen firefighters; to support active and retired Local 1260 members and their families; to support other firefighters and their families in Illinois and beyond; and to provide financial support to community members and/or charitable groups locally
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Support health and welfare of members
$37,708 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,708.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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.
100% of CHAMPAIGN FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (24% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CHAMPAIGN FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND’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
CHAMPAIGN FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
100% 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 CHAMPAIGN FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND.
“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
100% of CHAMPAIGN FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
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
CHAMPAIGN FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,330 membership benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,330 membership benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CHAMPAIGN FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND
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 Illinois
Nationally
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHAMPAIGN FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND: 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 CHAMPAIGN FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND?
- CHAMPAIGN FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,428 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY ($20,428). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHAMPAIGN FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $30,428 in grants to CHAMPAIGN FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAMPAIGN FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND?
- UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $20,428 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAMPAIGN FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 2 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