Illinois · Nonprofit
Chicago Fire Department Charities Inc
Chicago Fire Department Charities Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being ASSET NETWORK FOR EDUCATION WORLDWIDE INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $62k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $19k
What Chicago Fire Department Charities Inc does
Mission
Support the Chicago Fire Dept
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Support the Chicago Fire Dept Past and Present Members and its History
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $6k to $19k (+211%).
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 Chicago Fire Department Charities Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Against its field
Chicago Fire Department Charities Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,113 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,113 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
Organizations like Chicago Fire Department Charities 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 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 Chicago Fire Department Charities 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 Chicago Fire Department Charities Inc?
- Chicago Fire Department Charities Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being ASSET NETWORK FOR EDUCATION WORLDWIDE INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Chicago Fire Department Charities Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to Chicago Fire Department Charities Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Chicago Fire Department Charities Inc?
- ASSET NETWORK FOR EDUCATION WORLDWIDE INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Chicago Fire Department Charities Inc 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 FY2021 (financials across 2018–2021), 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