Wisconsin · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR MILWAUKEE FIRE EDUCATION
FOUNDATION FOR MILWAUKEE FIRE EDUCATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $17,361 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($17,361). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2021
- $3k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $302k
What Foundation for Milwaukee Fire Education does
Mission
Provide financial support for fire education and youth violence prevention to surronding milwaukee metro area
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Trained students fire safety through video instruction and simulation of what to do if in a house fire at the survive alive house in milwaukee wi.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 $265k to $326k (+23%).
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.
80% of FOUNDATION FOR MILWAUKEE FIRE EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $5k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FOUNDATION FOR MILWAUKEE FIRE EDUCATION’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
100% of FOUNDATION FOR MILWAUKEE FIRE EDUCATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k 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
FOUNDATION FOR MILWAUKEE FIRE EDUCATION's revenue fell 84% between 2017 and 2021.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,113 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR MILWAUKEE FIRE EDUCATION
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUNDATION FOR MILWAUKEE FIRE EDUCATION: 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 FOUNDATION FOR MILWAUKEE FIRE EDUCATION?
- FOUNDATION FOR MILWAUKEE FIRE EDUCATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $17,361 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($17,361). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR MILWAUKEE FIRE EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $17,361 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR MILWAUKEE FIRE EDUCATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR MILWAUKEE FIRE EDUCATION?
- GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $17,361 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR MILWAUKEE FIRE EDUCATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), 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