Colorado · Nonprofit
LYONS FIRE FUND
LYONS FIRE FUND (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,511 to it, the largest being THE BOEDECKER FOUNDATION ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $69k
- Net assets
- $15k
What Lyons Fire Fund does
Mission
Augment Lyons Fire Protection District Budget & Mission
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provided grant to the Lyons Fire Protection District for a hydraulic ram for extrication
$17,495 spentof which $17,495 as grants38% of program spendingProvided grant to the Lyons Fire Protection District for Uniforms and Personal Protective Equipment
$15,000 spentof which $15,000 as grants32% of program spendingProvided grant to the Lyons Fire Protection District for training equipment.
$5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants11% of program spendingProvided grant to the Lyons Fire Protection District for cyanokits.
$3,980 spentof which $3,980 as grants9% of program spendingProvided a grant to the Lyons Fire Protection District for furniture for the Fire Station.
$5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants11% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $46,475.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $10k to $27k (+156%).
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 LYONS FIRE FUND’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. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $95.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 LYONS FIRE FUND’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
LYONS FIRE FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% 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
26% 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 LYONS FIRE FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 66% · 2023 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
98% of LYONS FIRE FUND's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
LYONS FIRE FUND has grown faster than half 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 LYONS FIRE FUND
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LYONS FIRE FUND: 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 LYONS FIRE FUND?
- LYONS FIRE FUND (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,511 to it, the largest being THE BOEDECKER FOUNDATION ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LYONS FIRE FUND have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $68,511 in grants to LYONS FIRE FUND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LYONS FIRE FUND?
- THE BOEDECKER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LYONS FIRE FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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