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FIRE MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC

EIN 23-7116405 LUTHERVILLE, MD

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Revenue 2024
$484,791
Expenses 2024
$410,896

Program services were 86.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A500
Classification
2000
Street
1301 YORK ROAD

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

RESTORATION, DISPLAY OF ANTIQUE FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT, AND TEACHING FIRE FIGHTING HISTORY, FIRE SAFETY, AND PREVENTION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

EDUCATION - PUBLIC MUSEUM OF ANTIQUE FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT AND MEMORABILIA.

  • COLLECT, PRESERVE, DISPLAY, AND INTERPRET HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT FIRE EQUIPMENT & MEMORABILIA. EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE HISTORY OF FIRE SERVICE AND PRESERVATION.

    Expenses $348,411

  • MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM TO DISSEMINATE INFORMATION ABOUT THE MUSEUM TO THE PUBLIC VIA NEWSLETTERS AND OTHER MAILINGS.

    Expenses $7,677

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Thomas M Bruggman

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Eric Walker

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • James Melia

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Philp G Ghassemieh

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Jordan M Halle

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Melissa Heaver

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Dean A Denning

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Angelo Otterbein

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Ross Shaffer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Thomas Heaver

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Stephen G Heaver Jr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Jeffrey Buchheit

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Todd Huff

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • W Lee Smith III

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $484,791
    Expenses
    $410,896
    Contributions
    $316,431
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $474,107
    Expenses
    $473,149
    Contributions
    $255,693
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $495,381
    Expenses
    $486,579
    Contributions
    $448,083
    Grants paid
    $0

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

    Revenue
    $1,437,306
    Expenses
    $350,657
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,769,077
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $471,689
    Expenses
    $349,113
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,805,004
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $441,366
    Expenses
    $278,081
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,723,810
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $467,361
    Expenses
    $329,546
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,518,451
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $484,160
    Expenses
    $440,375
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,388,843
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $472,253
    Expenses
    $350,384
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,335,381
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $333,316
    Expenses
    $351,244
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,214,866
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $233,608
    Expenses
    $277,398
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,236,431
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $248,669
    Expenses
    $241,687
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,285,683
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $233,035
    Expenses
    $304,526
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,278,999

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.