Wisconsin · Nonprofit
MINNESOTA STATE FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC
MINNESOTA STATE FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,100 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA FAIR PLAN ($65,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $783k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $65k
- Net assets
- $754k
What Minnesota State Fire Chiefs Association Inc does
Mission
To create a stronger, more effective minnesota fire service by engaging current and future leaders with the best training, education and professional development opportunities available.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Membership and education: providing information and training to the association's members and the general public on a variety of fire safety, prevention, and industry-related technical issues.
$556,335 spentof which $11,800 as grants$563,902 earned by the program93% of program spendingPublication: promoting fire safety awareness and providing information regarding the fire fighting profession is aided by publication and distribution of three items: a bimonthly printed newsletter, a bimonthly electronic newsletter distributed in alternating months from the magazine and an annual directory.
$39,076 spent$180 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $595,411.
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. 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 2022 to 2023, from $551k to $704k (+28%).
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.
16% of MINNESOTA STATE FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 2 of the last 9 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
Sandra Schueller
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $65k → $50.
From the IRS filings of MINNESOTA STATE FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC’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 STATE FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC 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
100% 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 STATE FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 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
MINNESOTA STATE FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 2 states in all.
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
MINNESOTA STATE FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $65k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MINNESOTA STATE FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC
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.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 STATE FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC: 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 STATE FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC?
- MINNESOTA STATE FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,100 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA FAIR PLAN ($65,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA STATE FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $65,100 in grants to MINNESOTA STATE FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA STATE FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC?
- MINNESOTA FAIR PLAN is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA STATE FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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