Montana · Nonprofit
TRI-COUNTY FIRESAFE WORKING GROUP
TRI-COUNTY FIRESAFE WORKING GROUP (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,624 to it, the largest being COALITIONS & COLLABORATIVES INC ($7,624). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $311k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $82k
What Tri-County Firesafe Working Group does
Mission
To preserve and enhance the area's natural & manmade resources through a collaborative effort by mobilizing both public and private sectors to make homes, businesses, properties, neighborhoods, communities and the landscape more fire safe.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Tri-County Firesafe Working Group's (tcfswg) mission is to engage property owners on how to co-exist with and survive wildfire. Our programs and activities are designed to help property owners reduce their fire risks and to live more safely in a wildfire environment. These programs include outreach & education, private property wildfire risk assessments, and risk reduction activities targeting hazardous fuels removal and defensible space improvements on private lands and structures that are at risk to the impacts of wildfire. The organization consists of a broad spectrum of stakeholders including federal and state land managers and wildfire officials, county, and city government as well as private citizens and contractors.
$257,783 spentof which $162,875 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $257,783.
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 2018 to 2019, from $56k to $144k (+158%).
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: 2021 8% · 2022 99% · 2023 96% · 2024 100% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of TRI-COUNTY FIRESAFE WORKING GROUP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 4 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.
Chief executive
Lois Olsen
President and interim executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of TRI-COUNTY FIRESAFE WORKING GROUP’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.
Where its funders are
TRI-COUNTY FIRESAFE WORKING GROUP draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 1 state in all.
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
TRI-COUNTY FIRESAFE WORKING GROUP has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding TRI-COUNTY FIRESAFE WORKING GROUP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of the Interior$969k
- Department of Agriculture$111k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like TRI-COUNTY FIRESAFE WORKING GROUP
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 TRI-COUNTY FIRESAFE WORKING GROUP: 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 TRI-COUNTY FIRESAFE WORKING GROUP?
- TRI-COUNTY FIRESAFE WORKING GROUP (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,624 to it, the largest being COALITIONS & COLLABORATIVES INC ($7,624). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRI-COUNTY FIRESAFE WORKING GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,624 in grants to TRI-COUNTY FIRESAFE WORKING GROUP.
- Who is the largest funder of TRI-COUNTY FIRESAFE WORKING GROUP?
- COALITIONS & COLLABORATIVES INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,624 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRI-COUNTY FIRESAFE WORKING GROUP 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 1 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