Minnesota · Nonprofit
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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $635k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Forest Lake Fire Dept Relief Assn does
Mission
The Association communicates fire awareness to city residents and receives and manages funds that provide retirement and disability benefits to firefighters.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To manage the Relief Association's pension and benefits, to advance fire prevention and education, to support camaraderie among firefighters, their families, and the community, and to provide relief to those in need.
$86,116 spentof which $2,708 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $86,116.
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 2024 to 2025, from $4.6M to $5.6M (+22%).
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 55% · 2018 48% · 2019 51% · 2020 32% · 2021 47% · 2022 54% · 2023 54% · 2024 46% · 2025 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of Forest Lake Fire Dept Relief Assn’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
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.
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
Forest Lake Fire Dept Relief Assn runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Forest Lake Fire Dept Relief Assn
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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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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.
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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 1 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