Oregon · Nonprofit
Oregon Fire Service Museum Memorial and Learning
Oregon Fire Service Museum Memorial and Learning (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,655 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $27k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $54k
- Net assets
- $845k
What Oregon Fire Service Museum Memorial and Learning does
Mission
To establish and maintain a astatewide fire museum to shae the story of fire service, honor those in fire service, promote public fire safety education, and preserve, and display fire service artifacts.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Establishing a fire service museum and acquiring and maintaining fire service artifacts.
$52,105 spent$71,783 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $52,105.
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 $644k to $793k (+23%).
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: 2024 9% · 2025 23% · 2026 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Oregon Fire Service Museum Memorial and Learning’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $20k → $1k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 Oregon Fire Service Museum Memorial and Learning’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
Oregon Fire Service Museum Memorial and Learning leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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
65% 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 Oregon Fire Service Museum Memorial and Learning.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 76% · 2023 96% — 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.
Where its funders are
65% of Oregon Fire Service Museum Memorial and Learning's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $19k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Oregon Fire Service Museum Memorial and Learning's revenue fell 70% between 2018 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 435 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like Oregon Fire Service Museum Memorial and Learning
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 Oregon Fire Service Museum Memorial and Learning: 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 Oregon Fire Service Museum Memorial and Learning?
- Oregon Fire Service Museum Memorial and Learning (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,655 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Oregon Fire Service Museum Memorial and Learning have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $53,655 in grants to Oregon Fire Service Museum Memorial and Learning, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Oregon Fire Service Museum Memorial and Learning?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Oregon Fire Service Museum Memorial and Learning find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2018–2026), and the filings of 5 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