Montana · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF FERNDALE MT FIRE
FRIENDS OF FERNDALE MT FIRE (Montana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,975 to it, the largest being FRED L HARTLEY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $80k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $58k
What Friends of Ferndale Mt Fire does
Mission
To aid and assist the ferndale volunteer fire department in montana with the funding of equipment, training, facilities-related needs, and any other needs as may be determined by the board of directors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Not described on the e-filed return.
$37,892 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,892.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $26k to $58k (+121%).
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.
100% of FRIENDS OF FERNDALE MT FIRE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 FRIENDS OF FERNDALE MT FIRE’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
FRIENDS OF FERNDALE MT FIRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
35% 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 FRIENDS OF FERNDALE MT FIRE.
“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 FRIENDS OF FERNDALE MT FIRE's grant income comes from Montana funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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
FRIENDS OF FERNDALE MT FIRE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF FERNDALE MT FIRE
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FERNDALE MT FIRE?
- FRIENDS OF FERNDALE MT FIRE (Montana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,975 to it, the largest being FRED L HARTLEY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF FERNDALE MT FIRE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $54,975 in grants to FRIENDS OF FERNDALE MT FIRE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF FERNDALE MT FIRE?
- FRED L HARTLEY FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF FERNDALE MT FIRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 4 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