New York · Nonprofit
FIREBOAT FIRE FIGHTER MUSEUM
FIREBOAT FIRE FIGHTER MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $680,245 to it, the largest being ROBERT DAVID LION GARDINER FOUNDATION INC ($571,453). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $84k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $680k
- Net assets
- $574k
What Fireboat Fire Fighter Museum does
Mission
Organization operates a public museum offering free guided tours of the fire fighter, a national landmark vessel.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Visitors tour the entire vessel guided by knowledgeable volunteers. Attendance is approximately 3000 visitors per year
$82,093 spent97% of program spendingVessel water display- three times per year ; the fire fighter boat maneuvers in the harbor to display its ability to shoot water from the monitors or water cannons. An estimated 6000 visitors have had this experience.
$2,870 spent3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $84,963.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2023 to 2024, from $920k to $576k (−37%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 84% · 2018 30% · 2019 69% · 2020 33% · 2021 20% · 2023 16% · 2024 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of FIREBOAT FIRE FIGHTER MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $250 → $453k.
From the IRS filings of FIREBOAT FIRE FIGHTER MUSEUM’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
FIREBOAT FIRE FIGHTER MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 100% · 2022 96% · 2023 100% — 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
100% of FIREBOAT FIRE FIGHTER MUSEUM's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
FIREBOAT FIRE FIGHTER MUSEUM's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding FIREBOAT FIRE FIGHTER MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $451k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$451k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FIREBOAT FIRE FIGHTER MUSEUM
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 FIREBOAT FIRE FIGHTER MUSEUM: 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 FIREBOAT FIRE FIGHTER MUSEUM?
- FIREBOAT FIRE FIGHTER MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $680,245 to it, the largest being ROBERT DAVID LION GARDINER FOUNDATION INC ($571,453). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIREBOAT FIRE FIGHTER MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $680,245 in grants to FIREBOAT FIRE FIGHTER MUSEUM, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIREBOAT FIRE FIGHTER MUSEUM?
- ROBERT DAVID LION GARDINER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $571,453 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIREBOAT FIRE FIGHTER MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing