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DEARBORN FIRE FIGHTERS BURN DRIVE

DEARBORN FIRE FIGHTERS BURN DRIVE (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,600 to it, the largest being FORD PHILANTHROPY ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$120k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$11k
Net assets
$181k
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Dearborn Fire Fighters Burn Drive does

Mission

Educational and charitable aid for firefighters and their families, medical facilities, and the general public with special regard for injury or casualty due to fire burns.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. (local support) support payments are made to current or past community members experiencing hardship after a burn-related injury or casualty.

    $14,070 spent
    66% of program spending

  2. (toy run) annual toy run uses current firefighters to deliver christmas presents to local area hospitals, specifically pediatric patients, as well as provide a visit with santa.

    $6,492 spent
    30% of program spending

  3. Administrative, board member meetings

    $740 spent
    3% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $21,302.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($44k) Expenses 100 ($45k) Net assets 100 ($176k)2020 Revenue 120 ($53k) Expenses 55 ($25k) Net assets 121 ($214k)2021 Revenue 109 ($48k) Expenses 83 ($37k) Net assets 137 ($241k)2022 Revenue 263 ($116k) Expenses 200 ($90k) Net assets 95 ($166k)2023 Revenue 272 ($120k) Expenses 269 ($121k) Net assets 103 ($181k)
20192020202120222023
Revenue (272)Expenses (269)Net assets (103)

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 $241k to $166k (−31%).

$176k
$214k
$241k
$166k
$181k
20192020202120222023
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$703
’19
$29k
’20
$11k
’21
$26k
’22
−$544
’23
56
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.

Board chair

Chad Bronson

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

201920202021
Listed444
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
'25*
total
funders
2
1

From the IRS filings of DEARBORN FIRE FIGHTERS BURN DRIVE’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

DEARBORN FIRE FIGHTERS BURN DRIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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

94%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

94% of DEARBORN FIRE FIGHTERS BURN DRIVE's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI
NC
FL

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like DEARBORN FIRE FIGHTERS BURN DRIVE

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 Michigan

Kimball Township Firefighters Association79%The Newport Fire Fighters Association76%Livingston County First Responders Benevolent Fund Inc76%Canton Firefighters 2289 Charity Foundation75%Northville Township Professional Fire Fighters Charity Fund75%Westland Firefighters Public Awareness Committee75%Farmington Hills Police and Fire Benevolent Association74%One Dearborn Inc74%

Nationally

Daisy Mountain Firefighters Charities Association81%San Jose Firefighters Burn Foundation Inc80%Millburn Firemen's Welfare Assn80%Firefighters for Families Inc80%Franklin Firefighters Charities80%Firefighter Angel Foundation80%Dover Firefighters Charitable Association80%The Upper Darby Professional Fire Fighters Charitable Trust80%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DEARBORN FIRE FIGHTERS BURN DRIVE: 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 DEARBORN FIRE FIGHTERS BURN DRIVE?
DEARBORN FIRE FIGHTERS BURN DRIVE (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,600 to it, the largest being FORD PHILANTHROPY ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DEARBORN FIRE FIGHTERS BURN DRIVE have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $10,600 in grants to DEARBORN FIRE FIGHTERS BURN DRIVE.
Who is the largest funder of DEARBORN FIRE FIGHTERS BURN DRIVE?
FORD PHILANTHROPY is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DEARBORN FIRE FIGHTERS BURN DRIVE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2019–2023), and the filings of 3 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