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FIRE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL

FIRE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,270 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($95,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$229k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$99k
Net assets
$110k
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Fire Mountain School does

Mission

Pre-K, kindergarten, and elementary education

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Fire Mountain School's mission is to nurture each child by providing a joyful, place-based learning experience. We have three central goals for our students: 1) That they develop a strong and positive sense of themselves; 2) That they come to see learning as an ongoing, joyful, and self-initiated quest; and 3) That they come to know themselves as interactive participants in the wider natural, social, and practical world.

    $180,838 spent$176,810 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $180,838.

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 ($134k) Expenses 100 ($140k) Net assets 100 ($51k)2022 Revenue 114 ($153k) Expenses 118 ($166k) Net assets 74 ($38k)2023 Revenue 138 ($185k) Expenses 112 ($157k) Net assets 130 ($66k)2024 Revenue 135 ($181k) Expenses 119 ($167k) Net assets 157 ($80k)2025 Revenue 171 ($229k) Expenses 142 ($198k) Net assets 216 ($110k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (171)Expenses (142)Net assets (216)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 2024 to 2025, from $87k to $117k (+35%).

$53k
$44k
$69k
$87k
$117k
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

19% of FIRE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

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

−$6k
’21
−$13k
’22
$28k
’23
$14k
’24
$30k
’25
3.9
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.

20232025
Listed55
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $10k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 FIRE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL’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

FIRE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96% 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 FIRE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL.

96%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 74% · 2022 91% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.

“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

96% of FIRE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL'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 $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 2 states.

OH
FL

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

’21
’22
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $96k 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

FIRE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve3.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like FIRE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL

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 Oregon

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OR

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Questions and answers

Who funds FIRE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL?
FIRE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,270 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($95,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FIRE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $99,270 in grants to FIRE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FIRE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $95,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FIRE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 5 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