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FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM AND SURVIVE ALIVE INC

FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM AND SURVIVE ALIVE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,046 to it, the largest being INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ($52,046). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$109k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$67k
Net assets
$1.2M
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Firefighters Museum and Survive Alive Inc does

Mission

To provide fire safety education and a museum to celebrate and honor the contributions of central indiana fire services to the city of indianapolis.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provided education to children and immigrants regarding fire safety and how to reduce fire-related deaths by hands-on demonstration and training. In 2025, we served 1,200 students and immigrants.

    $53,109 spent
    47% of program spending

  2. Operated museum to educate the general public about the history, contributions, and impact that the local fire department has made on the city of indianapolis. An estimated 700 people visited the museum in 2025.

    $60,601 spent
    53% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $113,710.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($116k) Expenses 100 ($115k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 105 ($122k) Expenses 94 ($107k) Net assets 101 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 17 ($19k) Expenses 47 ($54k) Net assets 98 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 133 ($153k) Expenses 57 ($66k) Net assets 105 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 48 ($55k) Expenses 109 ($126k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 67 ($78k) Expenses 90 ($103k) Net assets 98 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 58 ($67k) Expenses 96 ($111k) Net assets 94 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 95 ($109k) Expenses 107 ($123k) Net assets 93 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (95)Expenses (107)Net assets (93)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.3M to $1.4M (+7%).

$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.2M
$1.2M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$793
’18
$15k
’19
−$35k
’20
$88k
’21
−$70k
’22
−$25k
’23
−$44k
’24
−$14k
’25
35
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.

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Listed44444444
Joined·+0+1+0+0+1+1+2
No longer listed·0100112
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $52k → $15k.

Funder
'17
'18
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM AND SURVIVE ALIVE INC’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

FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM AND SURVIVE ALIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% 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

100% 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 FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM AND SURVIVE ALIVE INC.

78%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 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 FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM AND SURVIVE ALIVE INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

IN

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

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’18
Indiana out of state home

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 FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM AND SURVIVE ALIVE INC

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In Indiana

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Nationally

Dallas Firefighters Museum Inc84%Fire Department Museum of Memphis Inc83%Chicago Fire Department Foundation83%Western Reserve Fire Museum at Cleveland Inc82%Michigan Firehouse Museum and Education Center82%African American Firefighter Museum82%New York City Fire Museum82%Denver Firefighters Museum Inc81%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

50%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Indianapolis Professional · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM AND SURVIVE ALIVE INC?
FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM AND SURVIVE ALIVE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,046 to it, the largest being INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ($52,046). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM AND SURVIVE ALIVE INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $67,046 in grants to FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM AND SURVIVE ALIVE INC.
Who is the largest funder of FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM AND SURVIVE ALIVE INC?
INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $52,046 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM AND SURVIVE ALIVE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 2 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