Illinois · Nonprofit
CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT PIPES & DRUMS
CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT PIPES & DRUMS (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $73 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($73). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $7k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $73
- Net assets
- $12k
What Chicago Fire Department Pipes & Drums does
Mission
Organized in May of 2007. The Chicago Fire Department Pipes & Drums was established with three virtues in mind. Pride, honor and tradition. This public service band set out to create an organization that upholds the traditions of the Fire Service and aims for the high performance standard of a world class Pipe & Drum Band.The CFD P&D is comprised of members of the Chicago Fire Department and their immediate family. Every decision the band makes is done while keeping in mind our core values. Put the focus on the band and the department we represent first.Band members realize that involvement in the band is an extension of their calling in the fire service. For our civilian members, it is often a way to honor a loved one and give back the CFD family that has been there since they were born.Since the very beginning, the band has received strong support from the Chicago Fire Department and the Chicago Fire Fighters Union Local 2.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
This public service band set out to create an organization that upholds the traditions of the Fire Service and aims for the high performance standard of a world class Pipe & Drum Band. (IN support OF the Chicago Fire Department and the Chicago Fire Fighters Union Local 2).
$4,933 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $4,933.
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.
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 $15k to $13k (−12%).
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 PIPES & DRUMS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $58.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT PIPES & DRUMS’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 CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT PIPES & DRUMS'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $73 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT PIPES & DRUMS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 435 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 435 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT PIPES & DRUMS
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
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT PIPES & DRUMS?
- CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT PIPES & DRUMS (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $73 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($73). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT PIPES & DRUMS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $73 in grants to CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT PIPES & DRUMS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT PIPES & DRUMS?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $73 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT PIPES & DRUMS 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2022–2026), 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