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CRYSTAL LAKES FIRE INFO RESOURCE EDUC & SAFETY CO

CRYSTAL LAKES FIRE INFO RESOURCE EDUC & SAFETY CO (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,573 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($13,012). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$37k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$27k
Net assets
$165k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Crystal Lakes Fire Info Resource Educ & Safety Co does

Mission

Support cl volunteer fire department

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Fundraising and organized rubber duck race, organized and fundraising through rummage sale

    $3,919 spent
    42% of program spending
  2. Community family fun day

    $1,479 spent
    16% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $9,317. The per-program figures do not add up to the total the return states; both are shown as filed.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($78k) Expenses 100 ($122k) Net assets 100 ($54k)2022 Revenue 67 ($52k) Expenses 34 ($42k) Net assets 118 ($64k)2023 Revenue 59 ($46k) Expenses 7 ($9k) Net assets 187 ($101k)2024 Revenue 54 ($42k) Expenses 9 ($11k) Net assets 244 ($132k)2025 Revenue 48 ($37k) Expenses 4 ($4k) Net assets 305 ($165k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (48)Expenses (4)Net assets (305)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 $64k to $101k (+57%).

$54k
$64k
$101k
$132k
$165k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of CRYSTAL LAKES FIRE INFO RESOURCE EDUC & SAFETY CO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$44k
’21
$10k
’22
$37k
’23
$31k
’24
$33k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $14k → $564.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 CRYSTAL LAKES FIRE INFO RESOURCE EDUC & SAFETY CO’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

CRYSTAL LAKES FIRE INFO RESOURCE EDUC & SAFETY CO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

99% 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 CRYSTAL LAKES FIRE INFO RESOURCE EDUC & SAFETY CO.

49%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 96% · 2021 92% · 2022 93% · 2023 91% — diversifying over time.

“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

99% of CRYSTAL LAKES FIRE INFO RESOURCE EDUC & SAFETY CO'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 $252 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state.

IA

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

’21
’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k 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

CRYSTAL LAKES FIRE INFO RESOURCE EDUC & SAFETY CO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin88% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−17% · bottom quartile

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

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05Profile & governance

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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CRYSTAL LAKES FIRE INFO RESOURCE EDUC & SAFETY CO?
CRYSTAL LAKES FIRE INFO RESOURCE EDUC & SAFETY CO (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,573 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($13,012). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CRYSTAL LAKES FIRE INFO RESOURCE EDUC & SAFETY CO have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $26,573 in grants to CRYSTAL LAKES FIRE INFO RESOURCE EDUC & SAFETY CO, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CRYSTAL LAKES FIRE INFO RESOURCE EDUC & SAFETY CO?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $13,012 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CRYSTAL LAKES FIRE INFO RESOURCE EDUC & SAFETY CO 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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