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LEXINGTON FRATERNAL ORDER OF FIREFIGHTERS INC

LEXINGTON FRATERNAL ORDER OF FIREFIGHTERS INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,922 to it, the largest being FREDERICKS FAMILY FUND FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$348k
Revenue FY2024
5
Funders on record
$37k
Grants received
$759k
Net assets
0/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%

Against its field

LEXINGTON FRATERNAL ORDER OF FIREFIGHTERS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,680 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve31.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,680 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($175k) Expenses 100 ($135k) Net assets 100 ($513k)2018 Revenue 116 ($204k) Expenses 87 ($117k) Net assets 117 ($599k)2019 Revenue 98 ($172k) Expenses 126 ($170k) Net assets 118 ($608k)2020 Revenue 78 ($137k) Expenses 99 ($134k) Net assets 119 ($610k)2021 Revenue 115 ($201k) Expenses 90 ($121k) Net assets 134 ($690k)2022 Revenue 110 ($193k) Expenses 124 ($168k) Net assets 135 ($694k)2023 Revenue 93 ($164k) Expenses 115 ($155k) Net assets 137 ($703k)2024 Revenue 198 ($348k) Expenses 216 ($291k) Net assets 148 ($759k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (198)Expenses (216)Net assets (148)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

105% of LEXINGTON FRATERNAL ORDER OF FIREFIGHTERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,375 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$40k
17
$86k
18
$2k
19
$2k
20
$80k
21
$26k
22
$9k
23
$56k
24
31
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2022: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $17k → $20k.

4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)73% 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 LEXINGTON FRATERNAL ORDER OF FIREFIGHTERS 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

LEXINGTON FRATERNAL ORDER OF FIREFIGHTERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 LEXINGTON FRATERNAL ORDER OF FIREFIGHTERS INC.

27%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 54% · 2022 50%diversifying over time.

“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

73% of LEXINGTON FRATERNAL ORDER OF FIREFIGHTERS INC'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. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Kentucky, across 1 state.

VA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

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 LEXINGTON FRATERNAL ORDER OF FIREFIGHTERS INC

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 Kentucky

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 33%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

KY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEXINGTON FRATERNAL ORDER OF FIREFIGHTERS 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds LEXINGTON FRATERNAL ORDER OF FIREFIGHTERS INC?
LEXINGTON FRATERNAL ORDER OF FIREFIGHTERS INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,922 to it, the largest being FREDERICKS FAMILY FUND FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LEXINGTON FRATERNAL ORDER OF FIREFIGHTERS INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $36,922 in grants to LEXINGTON FRATERNAL ORDER OF FIREFIGHTERS INC.
Who is the largest funder of LEXINGTON FRATERNAL ORDER OF FIREFIGHTERS INC?
FREDERICKS FAMILY FUND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEXINGTON FRATERNAL ORDER OF FIREFIGHTERS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing