Iowa · Nonprofit
MANCHESTER FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION
MANCHESTER FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,010 to it, the largest being ERLING B & DOROTHY E HANSON FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $265k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $359k
What Manchester Fire Fighters Association does
Mission
To assist the city of manchester fire department in the execution and performance of responsibilities to the citizens of the manchester fire department fire district with regards to the study and advancement of the science of fire prevention, protection, and suppression as well as emergency and medical response preparation and readiness, including the abiltity to buy, own, lease, rent, and hold real and personal property and operate and maintain said property for the purpose of carrying out, advancing and accomplishing its purpose and objective.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Manchester Fire Fighters Association paid various expenses and purchased equipment which was then donated to the city of manchester fire department.
$22,689 spent$264,246 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $22,689.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $121k to $359k (+198%).
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: 2019 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of MANCHESTER FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 1 of the last 3 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 fell $5k → $5.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 MANCHESTER FIRE FIGHTERS 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
MANCHESTER FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 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
100% of MANCHESTER FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10 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
MANCHESTER FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MANCHESTER FIRE FIGHTERS 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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MANCHESTER FIRE FIGHTERS 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 MANCHESTER FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION?
- MANCHESTER FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,010 to it, the largest being ERLING B & DOROTHY E HANSON FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MANCHESTER FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,010 in grants to MANCHESTER FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MANCHESTER FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION?
- ERLING B & DOROTHY E HANSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MANCHESTER FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 2019–2025), 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