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BELIEVE 271 FOUNDATION INC

EIN 47-1035467 HOLLAND PATNT, NY

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Revenue 2025
$121,662
Expenses 2025
$38,469

Program services were 91.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T99
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 357

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

Mission

TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS, EMTS AND MEMBERS OF LADIES AUXILIARIES IN ONEIDA AND HERKIMER COUNTIES WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM A LIFE -THREATENING ILLNESS, SUCH AS CANCER.

  • IN 2025, 8 GRANTS WERE GIVEN TO INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE SUFFERING FROM LIFE THREATENING ILLNESSES, SUCH AS CANCER.

    Expenses $35,238 · Grants $27,300

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.

  • David Jones

    COORESPONDING SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Eric Deking

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Christy Deking

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Donna Grems

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Fred Sherman

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Dan Schwertfeger

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dan Mabbett

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Brian McQueen

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Sarah McQueen

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Betsy Schwertfeger

    ASST 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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $121,662
    Expenses
    $38,469
    Contributions
    $30,952
    Grants paid
    $27,300
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $129,506
    Expenses
    $69,527
    Contributions
    $29,020
    Grants paid
    $57,800
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $130,896
    Expenses
    $51,679
    Contributions
    $52,470
    Grants paid
    $40,800
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $127,859
    Expenses
    $46,464
    Contributions
    $40,435
    Grants paid
    $35,000

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
    $75,760
    Expenses
    $42,828
    Assets (EOY)
    $305,206
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $64,248
    Expenses
    $58,859
    Assets (EOY)
    $272,274
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $138,152
    Expenses
    $41,014
    Assets (EOY)
    $266,885
  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $79,783
    Expenses
    $67,272
    Assets (EOY)
    $169,747
  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $86,820
    Expenses
    $51,611
    Assets (EOY)
    $157,236
  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $80,677
    Expenses
    $39,160
    Assets (EOY)
    $122,027
  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $85,494
    Expenses
    $40,734
    Assets (EOY)
    $80,510

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 2014

Tax period
1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014
Principal officer
Bethany Schwertfeger
Mailing address
8530 Old Poland RoadBarneveld NY 13304
Website
www.believe271.com

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.