Illinois · Nonprofit
ILLINOIS FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC
ILLINOIS FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,025 to it, the largest being UNION PACIFIC FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $105k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $308k
What Illinois Firefighter's Association Foundation Inc does
Mission
To promote and sponsor programs and activities and provide grants and scholarships to encourage fire training and safety.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Programs, activities, grants, and scholarships to encourage fire training adn safety.
$63,641 spentof which $4,900 as grants$37,084 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $63,641.
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 2020 to 2021, from $256k to $347k (+35%).
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.
0% of ILLINOIS FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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 ILLINOIS FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC’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
ILLINOIS FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
ILLINOIS FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states 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
ILLINOIS FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ILLINOIS FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Il Firefighters Assoc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ILLINOIS FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC: 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 FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC?
- ILLINOIS FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,025 to it, the largest being UNION PACIFIC FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ILLINOIS FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,025 in grants to ILLINOIS FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ILLINOIS FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC?
- UNION PACIFIC FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ILLINOIS FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC 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.
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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 2 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