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MINNESOTA PROF FIRE FIGHTERS

MINNESOTA PROF FIRE FIGHTERS (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,500 to it, the largest being THE MIKE TICE FOUNDATION ($7,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$662k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$9k
Net assets
$1.1M
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Minnesota Prof Fire Fighters does

Mission

Through member donations and fundraising events, the organization is able to service affiliated local unions by providing such services as promoting fellowship, improving working conditions, and providing education for professional fire fighters. See schedule o. The organization is also able to volunteer at other organization's fundraising events and fire protection awareness activities provided in schools and through social media.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Servicing affiliated local unions. Services included, but are not limited to, promotiong fellowship, improving working conditions, and providing eduation for professional fire fighters. The organization also volunteers at other organization fundraising events and fire protection awareness activities provided in schools and through social media.

    $190,773 spent$176,113 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $190,773.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($196k) Expenses 100 ($199k) Net assets 100 ($772k)2018 Revenue 115 ($226k) Expenses 122 ($242k) Net assets 91 ($701k)2019 Revenue 126 ($247k) Expenses 126 ($250k) Net assets 100 ($774k)2020 Revenue 106 ($207k) Expenses 79 ($157k) Net assets 106 ($815k)2021 Revenue 119 ($233k) Expenses 87 ($173k) Net assets 121 ($931k)2022 Revenue 151 ($296k) Expenses 119 ($237k) Net assets 111 ($860k)2023 Revenue 162 ($317k) Expenses 116 ($230k) Net assets 129 ($994k)2024 Revenue 338 ($662k) Expenses 350 ($696k) Net assets 142 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (338)Expenses (350)Net assets (142)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $860k to $994k (+16%).

$773k
$702k
$774k
$816k
$931k
$860k
$994k
$1.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’17
−$16k
’18
−$3k
’19
$51k
’20
$60k
’21
$58k
’22
$87k
’23
−$34k
’24
6.3
months of
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.

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Listed51099101199
Joined·+6+0+0+1+3+1+0
No longer listed·1100230
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $450 → $8k.

From the IRS filings of MINNESOTA PROF FIRE FIGHTERS’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 PROF FIRE FIGHTERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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

88%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 100% · 2022 97% — growing more concentrated.

“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

MINNESOTA PROF FIRE FIGHTERS draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states in all.

MN
NV

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’22
Minnesota out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like MINNESOTA PROF FIRE FIGHTERS

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

47% of spending goes to programs.

Program 47%Management 6%Fundraising 47%

Governance

8
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds MINNESOTA PROF FIRE FIGHTERS?
MINNESOTA PROF FIRE FIGHTERS (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,500 to it, the largest being THE MIKE TICE FOUNDATION ($7,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MINNESOTA PROF FIRE FIGHTERS have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $8,500 in grants to MINNESOTA PROF FIRE FIGHTERS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA PROF FIRE FIGHTERS?
THE MIKE TICE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MINNESOTA PROF FIRE FIGHTERS 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.

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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 3 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