Minnesota · Nonprofit
Lindstrom Volunteer Firemen's Relief Association
Lindstrom Volunteer Firemen's Relief Association (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,100 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($5,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $604k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $123k
What Lindstrom Volunteer Firemen's Relief Association does
Mission
To provide retirement benefits to volunteer firefighters.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Association is the sponsor of a defined benefit pension plan available to active and retired Lindstrom Volunteer firefighters.
$153,362 spentof which $133,558 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $153,362.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $123k (−90%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 55% · 2018 63% · 2019 49% · 2020 27% · 2021 19% · 2022 21% · 2023 29% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of Lindstrom Volunteer Firemen's Relief Association’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $1k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 Lindstrom Volunteer Firemen's Relief Association’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
Lindstrom Volunteer Firemen's Relief Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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
72% 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 Lindstrom Volunteer Firemen's Relief Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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
72% of Lindstrom Volunteer Firemen's Relief Association'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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
Lindstrom Volunteer Firemen's Relief Association runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Lindstrom Volunteer Firemen's Relief Association
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 Lindstrom Volunteer Firemen's Relief 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 Lindstrom Volunteer Firemen's Relief Association?
- Lindstrom Volunteer Firemen's Relief Association (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,100 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($5,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Lindstrom Volunteer Firemen's Relief Association have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $7,100 in grants to Lindstrom Volunteer Firemen's Relief Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lindstrom Volunteer Firemen's Relief Association?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lindstrom Volunteer Firemen's Relief Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 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