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TULSA FIRE MUSEUM INC

TULSA FIRE MUSEUM INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $586 to it, the largest being CAROL TANDY FOUNDATION ($400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$71k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$586
Net assets
$96k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Tulsa Fire Museum Inc does

Mission

Saving information on tulsa fire department, firefighters grear, trucks, log books, etc

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. More people coming to see the old stuff and look over the old building

    $90,929 spent$71,109 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $90,929.

02The 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 ($42k) Expenses 100 ($21k) Net assets 100 ($71k)2018 Revenue 57 ($24k) Expenses 125 ($26k) Net assets 96 ($68k)2019 Revenue 66 ($28k) Expenses 95 ($20k) Net assets 107 ($76k)2020 Revenue 56 ($23k) Expenses 75 ($16k) Net assets 118 ($84k)2021 Revenue 103 ($43k) Expenses 163 ($34k) Net assets 131 ($93k)2022 Revenue 68 ($28k) Expenses 146 ($31k) Net assets 127 ($90k)2023 Revenue 99 ($41k) Expenses 165 ($34k) Net assets 137 ($97k)2024 Revenue 98 ($41k) Expenses 113 ($24k) Net assets 163 ($116k)2025 Revenue 171 ($71k) Expenses 435 ($91k) Net assets 135 ($96k)
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Revenue (171)Expenses (435)Net assets (135)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $116k to $96k (−17%).

$71k
$68k
$76k
$84k
$93k
$90k
$97k
$116k
$96k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

76% of TULSA FIRE MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$21k
’17
−$2k
’18
$8k
’19
$8k
’20
$9k
’21
−$2k
’22
$7k
’23
$17k
’24
−$20k
’25
13
months of
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed555554
Joined·+0+0+0+0+1
No longer listed·00002
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $412 → $56.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
2
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 TULSA FIRE MUSEUM 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

TULSA FIRE MUSEUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% 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

32% 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 TULSA FIRE MUSEUM INC.

68%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 97% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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

100% of TULSA FIRE MUSEUM INC's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.

OK

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $186 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TULSA FIRE MUSEUM INC is better cushioned than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−28% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve12.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like TULSA FIRE MUSEUM 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 Oklahoma

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

675
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OK

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TULSA FIRE MUSEUM 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 TULSA FIRE MUSEUM INC?
TULSA FIRE MUSEUM INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $586 to it, the largest being CAROL TANDY FOUNDATION ($400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TULSA FIRE MUSEUM INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $586 in grants to TULSA FIRE MUSEUM INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TULSA FIRE MUSEUM INC?
CAROL TANDY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TULSA FIRE MUSEUM INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 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