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FIRE FOUNDATION OF DENVER

EIN 86-3861726 LITTLETON, CO

Revenue 2024
$948,578
Expenses 2024
$731,509

Program services were 82.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B12
Classification
1270
Street
40 W LITTLETON BLVD STE 210 PMB 283

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 · 2024

Mission

Our mission is to champion the inclusion of students with disabilities in Catholic schools by providing educational resources, fundraising and promoting a culture of belonging. Our vision is that Catholic school students with disabilities are welcomed, supported and valued.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Our mission is to champion the inclusion of students with disabilities in Catholic Schools by providing educational resources, fundraising, and promoting a culture of belonging. Our vision is to ensure that Catholic students with disabilities are welcomed, supported and valued.

  • We continued our fundraising efforts in 2024 in order to make grants to schools for the 2024/2025 school year. During the course of 2024, the Board of the Fire Foundation made grant commitments to 14 schools within the Archdiocese of Denver totaling $482,182. This represents a 46% increase in support over last year and enabled 207 students to attend Catholic schools who would not have been able to and 624 students to benefit from special education support. Such grant commitments were partially paid in 2024 and the remainder of these obligations will be paid during the first half of 2025. Ongoing fundraising efforts in 2024 have provided the Board of the Fire Foundation with additional resources to make new grant commitments to qualifying schools for the 2025/2026 school year during the first quarter of 2025. Such funding will continue to allow Catholic schools practicing inclusive education of children with disabilities with much needed financial resources to expand and enhance their respective educational programs.

    Expenses $519,411 · Grants $482,182

  • The Fire Foundation of Denver (FIRE) was able to continue providing grant funding of $20,000 in 2024 to the Office of Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of Denver in order to partially fund the salary for an important position relating to the mission of FIRE, the Director of Student Support Services. This position oversees and assists schools in educating children with significant special needs throughout the Archdiocese of Denver. FIRE also provided $56,500 in funding to teachers and other school administrators for professional development needs education, including the reimbursement of travel expenditures to approved conferences. Additionally, both the University of Notre Dame (through its program for inclusive education) and St. Louis University, provided in-kind/contributed services to FIRE during 2024 to further enhance the professional development of teachers in the Archdiocese of Denver.

    Expenses $76,500 · Grants $20,000

  • In 2024, FIRE commenced the Spark school initiative. Spark schools are those schools that are evaluating the feasibility of becoming an inclusive Catholic school within their parish and/or high school community. In 2024, four parish schools engaged in professional development alongside our Partner schools and received exclusive access to training through the Learning Research Network. Total expenditures for the four parish schools in 2024 was $8,000. Additionally, these Spark schools also received exclusive access to training through the Notre Dame Program of inclusive education and from St. Louis University, all of such services were contributed.

    Expenses $8,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Kyle Van Frank

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $72,450
    From this org
    $72,450
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Eve Langston

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Jessica Johnson

    Vice-President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • Jill Hall

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • David Holden

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • JD Flynn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kate Flynn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Susan Selner Wright

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3 + 3 related

  • Wesley Hardin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Lori Jones

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Darilyn Bixenman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Patricia Winders

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kevin Sherman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $948,578
    Expenses
    $731,509
    Contributions
    $727,254
    Grants paid
    $566,682
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $661,604
    Expenses
    $430,618
    Contributions
    $499,837
    Grants paid
    $352,323
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $408,747
    Expenses
    $164,247
    Contributions
    $82,416
    Grants paid
    $149,848

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
    $83,568
    Expenses
    $1,444
    Assets (EOY)
    $82,124

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.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.