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Illinois Fire Chiefs Association

Illinois Fire Chiefs Association (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $110,201 to it, the largest being Illinois Fire Chiefs Association Educational and Research Foundation ($110,201). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$903k
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$110k
Grants received
$894k
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($879k) Expenses 100 ($854k) Net assets 100 ($728k)2018 Revenue 103 ($905k) Expenses 97 ($831k) Net assets 110 ($802k)2019 Revenue 108 ($952k) Expenses 109 ($933k) Net assets 113 ($821k)2020 Revenue 91 ($798k) Expenses 96 ($820k) Net assets 110 ($799k)2021 Revenue 111 ($977k) Expenses 117 ($1.0M) Net assets 106 ($774k)2022 Revenue 111 ($979k) Expenses 113 ($962k) Net assets 109 ($791k)2023 Revenue 146 ($1.3M) Expenses 119 ($1.0M) Net assets 147 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 62 ($544k) Expenses 86 ($738k) Net assets 121 ($878k)2025 Revenue 103 ($903k) Expenses 104 ($888k) Net assets 123 ($894k)
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Revenue (103)Expenses (104)Net assets (123)

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
17
$74k
18
$19k
19
$23k
20
$25k
21
$17k
22
$272k
23
$193k
24
$15k
25
4.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $38k → $72k.

From the IRS filings of Illinois Fire Chiefs Association’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

100% of Illinois Fire Chiefs Association's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

17
18
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

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 Illinois Fire Chiefs Association

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 Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

37
board members
95%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Illinois Fire Chiefs Association Found · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Illinois Fire Chiefs Association: 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 Illinois Fire Chiefs Association?
Illinois Fire Chiefs Association (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $110,201 to it, the largest being Illinois Fire Chiefs Association Educational and Research Foundation ($110,201). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Illinois Fire Chiefs Association have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $110,201 in grants to Illinois Fire Chiefs Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Illinois Fire Chiefs Association?
Illinois Fire Chiefs Association Educational and Research Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $110,201 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Illinois Fire Chiefs Association find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing