Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER INITIATIVE
MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER INITIATIVE (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,163 to it, the largest being ED AND NANCY REINHART HENGEL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $107k
- Net assets
- $503k
What Minnesota Firefighter Initiative does
Mission
The Minnesota Firefighter Initiative (mnfire) is dedicated to providing minnesota's firefighters with the tools they need to prioritize and protect their health by focusing on the three health problems most commonly experienced by those in the fire service: cardiac, cancer and emotional wellness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Awareness education continues to be the most significant area of achievement for mnfire. Our goal is to educate all of the 21,500 firefighters in minnesota about the dangers they face from cardiac, cancer and emotional trauma. We strive to deliver annual mnfire awareness training for every minnesota firefighter. Changing the current culture in the minnesota fire service is integral to long-term reduction of the incidences of cancer.
$406,466 spentof which $18,500 as grants$3,118 earned by the program13% of program spendingThe organization provides the mnfire assistance program, which includes 5 sessions with a mental health care provider per issue per year for firefighters. We also have a peer support program for all firefighters to access when they need it.
$832,649 spent27% of program spendingCriticall illness program:the organization provides a critical illness program insurance policy, which all minnesota firefighters are enrolled in. It covers diagnoses of cancer, cardiac or other criticall illnesses, and provides a lump-sum cash payment of up to $20,000 to assist them with expense.
$1,861,122 spent60% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,100,237.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $148k to $1.2M (+679%).
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: 2020 64% · 2021 82% · 2022 95% · 2023 94% · 2024 96% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER INITIATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% 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.
Chief executive
Rebecca Otto
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $57 → $38k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER INITIATIVE’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
MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER INITIATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
40% 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 MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER INITIATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 57% · 2022 99% · 2023 29% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER INITIATIVE's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 23% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER INITIATIVE draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER INITIATIVE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER INITIATIVE
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER INITIATIVE: 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 MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER INITIATIVE?
- MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER INITIATIVE (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,163 to it, the largest being ED AND NANCY REINHART HENGEL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $107,163 in grants to MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER INITIATIVE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER INITIATIVE?
- ED AND NANCY REINHART HENGEL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC 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 MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER INITIATIVE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 13 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