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Forest Lake Fire Dept Relief Assn

Forest Lake Fire Dept Relief Assn (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,369 to it, the largest being Metropolitan Mayors Caucus ($5,369). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$548k
Revenue FY2024
1
Funders on record
$5k
Grants received
$4.6M
Net assets
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

Forest Lake Fire Dept Relief Assn runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,061 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin67% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,061 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($292k) Expenses 100 ($559k) Net assets 100 ($2.5M)2018 Revenue 116 ($338k) Expenses 41 ($231k) Net assets 92 ($2.3M)2019 Revenue 111 ($325k) Expenses 13 ($73k) Net assets 118 ($2.9M)2020 Revenue 189 ($551k) Expenses 20 ($113k) Net assets 134 ($3.3M)2021 Revenue 135 ($394k) Expenses 81 ($450k) Net assets 143 ($3.6M)2022 Revenue 125 ($366k) Expenses 14 ($76k) Net assets 129 ($3.2M)2023 Revenue 144 ($420k) Expenses 9 ($50k) Net assets 157 ($3.9M)2024 Revenue 188 ($548k) Expenses 33 ($183k) Net assets 184 ($4.6M)
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Revenue (188)Expenses (33)Net assets (184)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 55% · 2018 48% · 2019 51% · 2020 32% · 2021 47% · 2022 54% · 2023 54% · 2024 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

50% of Forest Lake Fire Dept Relief Assn’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,472 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$267k
17
$107k
18
$252k
19
$438k
20
$56k
21
$290k
22
$370k
23
$365k
24
8.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'18
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of Forest Lake Fire Dept Relief Assn’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.

Where its funders are

Forest Lake Fire Dept Relief Assn draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.

IL

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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Forest Lake Fire Dept Relief Assn

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Minnesota

Nationally

04Profile & 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

6
board members
50%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Forest Lake Fire Dept Relief Assn: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Forest Lake Fire Dept Relief Assn?
Forest Lake Fire Dept Relief Assn (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,369 to it, the largest being Metropolitan Mayors Caucus ($5,369). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Forest Lake Fire Dept Relief Assn have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,369 in grants to Forest Lake Fire Dept Relief Assn.
Who is the largest funder of Forest Lake Fire Dept Relief Assn?
Metropolitan Mayors Caucus is the largest funder on record, with $5,369 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Forest Lake Fire Dept Relief Assn find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing