Wisconsin · Nonprofit
MARKESAN FIRE DEPARTMENT
MARKESAN FIRE DEPARTMENT (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,250 to it, the largest being FRANCIS R & RUTH E OBERREICH FOUNDATION CORPORATION ($4,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $58k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $168k
What Markesan Fire Department does
Mission
Provide support for the grand river fire district
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provide support for the grand river fire district.
$40,874 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $40,874.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $85k to $137k (+61%).
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.
71% of MARKESAN FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (85% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500 → $1k.
From the IRS filings of MARKESAN FIRE DEPARTMENT’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.
Where its funders are
100% of MARKESAN FIRE DEPARTMENT's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
MARKESAN FIRE DEPARTMENT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,045 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,045 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MARKESAN FIRE DEPARTMENT
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARKESAN FIRE DEPARTMENT: 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 MARKESAN FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- MARKESAN FIRE DEPARTMENT (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,250 to it, the largest being FRANCIS R & RUTH E OBERREICH FOUNDATION CORPORATION ($4,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARKESAN FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $4,250 in grants to MARKESAN FIRE DEPARTMENT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARKESAN FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- FRANCIS R & RUTH E OBERREICH FOUNDATION CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARKESAN FIRE DEPARTMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing