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FRIENDS OF THE APPLETON FIRE DEPARTMENT

EIN 27-4019881 APPLETON, WI

Largest nonprofits in Wisconsin

Revenue 2025
$66,115
Expenses 2025
$588,478

Program services were 99.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
M112
Classification
1200
Street
700 N DREW ST

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 · 2025

Mission

THE PURPOSE OF THE FRIENDS OF THE APPLETON FIRE DEPARTMENT, INC. IS SUPPORTING THE SAFETY, HEALTH, EDUCATION OF FIREFIGHTERS AND THE PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS THEY PROVIDE TO THE COMMUNITY.

  • SUPPORTING THE SAFETY, HEALTH AND EDUCATION OF APPLETON FIREFIGHTERS THROUGH PURCHASES EQUIPMENT, SUPPLIES AND TRAINING.

    Expenses $29,599

  • SUPPORT FOR OTHER CHARITIES IN THE COMMUNITY.

    Expenses $553,489

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.

  • Brad Brautigan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Jon Fischer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Mike Kemmeter

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Mike Mueller

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Adam Paiser

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Scott Pelkin

    SECRETARY/TR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Alex Quintana

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Alicia Ratajczak

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Charlie Schmalz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $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
    $66,115
    Expenses
    $588,478
    Contributions
    $57,180
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $50,886
    Expenses
    $38,444
    Contributions
    $42,159
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $520,413
    Expenses
    $35,298
    Contributions
    $507,894
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $9,044
    Expenses
    $10,783
    Contributions
    $1,391
    Grants paid
    not reported

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
    $15,467
    Expenses
    $18,724
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,111
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $61,539
    Expenses
    $58,490
    Assets (EOY)
    $102,369
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $350,073
    Expenses
    $316,284
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,320

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2018

Tax period
1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018
Principal officer
Scott Pelkin
Mailing address
700 N Drew StreetAppleton WI 54911
Website
www.afdfriends.com

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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 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.