Missouri · Nonprofit
ST LOUIS FIRE DEPARTMENT LIFESAVING FOUNDATION
ST LOUIS FIRE DEPARTMENT LIFESAVING FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,620 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $78k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $65k
- Net assets
- $15k
What St Louis Fire Department Lifesaving Foundation does
Mission
To provide support to the st. Louis fire department to promote savinglives of those who live, work in, or visit the city of st. Louis; andto protect the health and safety of the professional lifesavers of thefire department as they carry out their duties.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To support the st. Louis fire department by providing funding and equipment within the foundation's two-fold mission: 1) to promote saving lives of those who live, work, and visit the city of st. Louis; and 2) to protect the lives of professional lifesavers. Our ongoing work will continue to support programs that improve the lives of st. Louis' first responders by providing the training and equipment they need. Our support continues to enable them to be there for the more than one million people who live and work in, and visit the city of st. Louis every day.training at the sim center includes mass casualty incident scenarios, mass casualty triage, cardioversion/defibrillation, and individualized simulation used for remediation. During the reporting period, the foundation provided software training updates for the stlfd ems simulation center.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 2019 to 2020, from $308k to $29k (−91%).
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.
100% of ST LOUIS FIRE DEPARTMENT LIFESAVING FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $17k → $38k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 ST LOUIS FIRE DEPARTMENT LIFESAVING FOUNDATION’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
ST LOUIS FIRE DEPARTMENT LIFESAVING FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 ST LOUIS FIRE DEPARTMENT LIFESAVING FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 60% · 2019 100% · 2020 66% — 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
91% of ST LOUIS FIRE DEPARTMENT LIFESAVING FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k 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
ST LOUIS FIRE DEPARTMENT LIFESAVING FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,113 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,113 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
Organizations like ST LOUIS FIRE DEPARTMENT LIFESAVING FOUNDATION
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
45%
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 ST LOUIS FIRE DEPARTMENT LIFESAVING FOUNDATION: 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 ST LOUIS FIRE DEPARTMENT LIFESAVING FOUNDATION?
- ST LOUIS FIRE DEPARTMENT LIFESAVING FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,620 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST LOUIS FIRE DEPARTMENT LIFESAVING FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $64,620 in grants to ST LOUIS FIRE DEPARTMENT LIFESAVING FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST LOUIS FIRE DEPARTMENT LIFESAVING FOUNDATION?
- ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST LOUIS FIRE DEPARTMENT LIFESAVING FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 6 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