New York · Nonprofit
FIRES & DRUMS FOUNDATION INC
FIRES & DRUMS FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,275 to it, the largest being MARY MARTIN PETTINGELL FOUNDATION ($1,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $31k
What Fires & Drums Foundation Inc does
Mission
To provide financial assistance to those in need who have fallen on hard times in memory of fallen firefighter billy tolley
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provide financial assistance to those in need who have fallen on hard times in memory of fallen firefighterbilly tolley
$35,000 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,000.
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 2018 to 2019, from $38k to $60k (+57%).
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.
0% of FIRES & DRUMS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $106.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 FIRES & DRUMS FOUNDATION 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
FIRES & DRUMS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 74% · 2022 100% · 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
FIRES & DRUMS FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $525 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
FIRES & DRUMS FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FIRES & DRUMS FOUNDATION INC
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.
Public support
100%
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 FIRES & DRUMS FOUNDATION INC: 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 FIRES & DRUMS FOUNDATION INC?
- FIRES & DRUMS FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,275 to it, the largest being MARY MARTIN PETTINGELL FOUNDATION ($1,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRES & DRUMS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $2,275 in grants to FIRES & DRUMS FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRES & DRUMS FOUNDATION INC?
- MARY MARTIN PETTINGELL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRES & DRUMS FOUNDATION INC 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 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