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RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION a Montana Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp

RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION a Montana Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp (Montana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $939,975 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($689,356). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$166k
Revenue FY2024
9
Funders on record
$940k
Grants received
$286k
Net assets
6/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 87%

Against its field

RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION a Montana Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp has grown faster than half of the 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1048% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($54k) Expenses 100 ($22k) Net assets 100 ($105k)2018 Revenue 327 ($175k) Expenses 91 ($20k) Net assets 247 ($261k)2019 Revenue 208 ($112k) Expenses 264 ($58k) Net assets 298 ($314k)2020 Revenue 641 ($343k) Expenses 255 ($56k) Net assets 570 ($601k)2021 Revenue 1556 ($833k) Expenses 524 ($115k) Net assets 1252 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 498 ($267k) Expenses 835 ($184k) Net assets 1330 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 1501 ($803k) Expenses 834 ($184k) Net assets 1919 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 309 ($166k) Expenses 8626 ($1.9M) Net assets 272 ($286k)
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Revenue (309)Expenses (8626)Net assets (272)Peer revenue range

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

94% of RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION a Montana Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,816 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$32k
17
$155k
18
$53k
19
$287k
20
$718k
21
$83k
22
$620k
23
$1.7M
24
1.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $4k → $701k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)79% 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 RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION a Montana Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp’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

RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION a Montana Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

79% 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 RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION a Montana Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp.

73%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 71% · 2021 69% · 2022 86% · 2023 98%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.

How long its funders stay

60% of RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION a Montana Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

79% of RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION a Montana Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp'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 $195k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside Montana, across 5 states.

WA
MT
MN
NY
OR

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

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19
20
21
22
23
Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $745k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION a Montana Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Montana

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 1%Fundraising 2%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

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 RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION a Montana Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION a Montana Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp?
RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION a Montana Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp (Montana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $939,975 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($689,356). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION a Montana Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $939,975 in grants to RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION a Montana Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION a Montana Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp?
Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $689,356 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION a Montana Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing