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Form 990-EZ for tax year 2022

Filed by FIREFIGHTER MINISTRIES INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$62,716
Total expenses
$52,113
Contributions and grants received
$61,376
Grants paid
$43
Program service revenue
$0
Membership dues (line 3)
$0
Investment income (line 4)
$0
Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
$0
Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
$1,310
Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
$0
Other revenue (line 8)
$30
Total assets, end of year
$19,237
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$19,237
Program service expenses (Part III)
$35,983

Program services were 69.0% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

Mission and programs · 2022

Primary exempt purpose

To provide at-need and long-term assistance to police, fire, and EMS agencies, and to the families who have experienced a line of duty fatality or catastrophic injury.

  • Line of Duty Death Response: This program is where we offer at-need assistance to families and first responder agencies that have suffered a line of duty death. A team of volunteers from our organization will travel to the affected department to assist with the funeral arrangements, crisis management, counseling, benefits filing, and referrals to local organizations for additional help. Team members will stay in the affected location in order to provide the services listed above. Each response requires a minimum of one volunteer but additional volunteers are utilized depending on the needs of the family and the affected agency.

    Expenses $19,199

  • Family Meet and Greets: This program allows family members an opportunity to meet with other survivor families and assist each other through the healing process.

    Expenses $3,448

  • Trauma Informed Care: This program provides information and resources to First Responders suffering from mental health issues caused by repeated exposure to trauma.

    Expenses $2,784

  • Other programs include a lending library where we provide an extensive library for families, agencies, and volunteers to borrow books and resources on topics such as grief, suicide prevention, survivors guilt, crisis counseling, and trauma; Family Care Kits are provided to families and include pamphlets, brochures, books, and a small gift to aid in the comfort of their grief; Education is provided to police, fire, and EMS agencies as well as our volunteers to assist them in preparing for a LODD, LODI, suicide prevention, and suicide survival, this includes one-on-one and department-wide training; Our Task Force Awareness program reaches out to emergency service agencies and provides information about the Task Force provides and programs it provides; Our Honor Guard Program provides training to departments and individuals who wish to honor the fallen by standing watch over the body of a fallen First Responder.

    Expenses $10,552

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part IV

  • Wendy Norris

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    30
  • Billy Wusterhausen

    Vice Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Matt Whisenant

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • John Norris

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990_ez
Tax year
2022
Filed
10 October 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202332839349200343

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