Wisconsin · Nonprofit
TWIN LAKES VOL FIRE DEPT AND RESCUE SQUAD
TWIN LAKES VOL FIRE DEPT AND RESCUE SQUAD (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $142,401 to it, the largest being Malinski Family Foundation ($140,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $142k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Twin Lakes Vol Fire Dept and Rescue Squad does
Mission
Serving the village of twin lakes wi and surrounding communities with full time paid staff and volunteer assistajce for firefighting and rescue services
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Program services include ambulance transport; ems life support; fire protection; fire prevention; community outreach
$1,708,927 spentof which $1,214,217 as grants$618,949 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,708,927.
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 2024 to 2025, from $646k to $1.3M (+103%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 10% · 2023 8% · 2024 1% · 2025 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of TWIN LAKES VOL FIRE DEPT AND RESCUE SQUAD’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (69% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $500 → $43.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 TWIN LAKES VOL FIRE DEPT AND RESCUE SQUAD’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
TWIN LAKES VOL FIRE DEPT AND RESCUE SQUAD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
TWIN LAKES VOL FIRE DEPT AND RESCUE SQUAD draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $201 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.
Against its field
TWIN LAKES VOL FIRE DEPT AND RESCUE SQUAD runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like TWIN LAKES VOL FIRE DEPT AND RESCUE SQUAD
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 Wisconsin
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
97%
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 TWIN LAKES VOL FIRE DEPT AND RESCUE SQUAD: 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 TWIN LAKES VOL FIRE DEPT AND RESCUE SQUAD?
- TWIN LAKES VOL FIRE DEPT AND RESCUE SQUAD (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $142,401 to it, the largest being Malinski Family Foundation ($140,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TWIN LAKES VOL FIRE DEPT AND RESCUE SQUAD have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $142,401 in grants to TWIN LAKES VOL FIRE DEPT AND RESCUE SQUAD, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TWIN LAKES VOL FIRE DEPT AND RESCUE SQUAD?
- Malinski Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TWIN LAKES VOL FIRE DEPT AND RESCUE SQUAD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 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