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FRIENDS OF BIGFORK FIRE DEPARTMENT

EIN 84-1721958 BIGFORK, MT

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Revenue 2025
$124,268
Expenses 2025
$96,704

Program services were 97.7% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
M24
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 2333

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Primary exempt purpose

To assist in providing the local fire and ambulence voluteers with training and safety equipment they need to perform their duties as volunteers for the Bigfork Fire Department.

  • Purchase of updated radio equipment for all volunteers personnel vehicles associated with the Bigfork Fire Department

    Expenses $80,270

  • Purchased a force door for use in training volunteer fire department personnel.

    Expenses $10,800

  • Purchased a crash manikin for use in training volunteer fire department personnel

    Expenses $3,365

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Jim Sticka

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Rob Tracy

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Susan Kratt

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Linda Johnson

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Diane Kautzman

    Hole Sponsor chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Lisa Benitez

    Member at large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Adam Heggelend

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Julie Coppin

    Pickleball tournament chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Al Logan

    Golf tournament chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Kay Gough

    Honorary member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, 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. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $124,268
    Expenses
    $96,704
    Contributions
    $96,755
    Grants paid
    $94,435
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $211,267
    Expenses
    $205,302
    Contributions
    $183,718
    Grants paid
    $199,503
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $67,973
    Expenses
    $55,043
    Contributions
    $42,994
    Grants paid
    $50,237
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $51,673
    Expenses
    $38,967
    Contributions
    $51,504
    Grants paid
    $36,389

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $56,995
    Expenses
    $7,538
    Assets (EOY)
    $227,438

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $18,874
    Expenses
    $10,690
    Assets (EOY)
    $167,182

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $41,987
    Expenses
    $45,259
    Assets (EOY)
    $158,998

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $41,469
    Expenses
    $1,889
    Assets (EOY)
    $162,270

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $25,324
    Expenses
    $11,357
    Assets (EOY)
    $122,690

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $23,577
    Expenses
    $15,053
    Assets (EOY)
    $108,722

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $17,515
    Expenses
    $59,381
    Assets (EOY)
    $100,198

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $47,200
    Expenses
    $1,770
    Assets (EOY)
    $142,064

  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $20,058
    Expenses
    $15,519
    Assets (EOY)
    $96,634

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $13,169
    Expenses
    $60,171
    Assets (EOY)
    $92,095

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

  • BIGFORK VOLUNTEER FIRE

    $199,503

    2024 CONSTRUCTION OF TRAI

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Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.