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RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION

EIN 38-3763630 RED LODGE, MT

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Revenue 2024
$165,522
Expenses 2024
$1,900,232

Program services were 96.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T990
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 318

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

To Provide Financial and Other Support to Fire and Emergency Medical Service Organizations and Providers Serving the Greater Red Lodge, Montana Community.

  • PROVIDE A VEHICLE TO RAISE FUNDS TO SUPPORT CONSTUCTION OF A NEW TRAINING CENTER AND STATION BUILDING FOR THE RED LODGE FIRE DISTRICT. FULL TITLE OF THE TRAINING TOWER AND FIRE STATION WAS GRANTED TO THE RED LODGE FIRE DISTRICT #7 IN 2024.

    Expenses $1,762,686 · Grants $1,762,686

  • PROVIDE FINANCIAL AND GENERAL SUPPORT TO FIRE, EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE, AND SEARCH AND RESCUE SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS AND PROVIDERS SERVING THE GREATER RED LODGE, MONTANA COMMUNITY.

    Expenses $48,339

  • PROVIDE GRANTS TO RED LODGE FIRE DISTRICT #7 TO FUND PURCHASES OF FURNISHINGS AND OFFICE FIXTURES FOR FIRE STATIONS #71 AND #73. GRANTS AMOUNTED TO $ 18,821

    Expenses $18,821 · Grants $18,821

  • GRANTED TO RED LODGE EMS SERVICE $ 4,019 TO FUND INFORMATIONAL PUBLICATION OF SERVICES PROVIDED TO CARBON COUNTY RESIDENTS.

    Expenses $4,019 · Grants $4,019

  • PROVIDE GRANTS TO RED LODGE FIRE DISTRICT #7 TO FUND EQUIPMENT PURCHASES FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE PURPOSES.

    Expenses $3,563 · Grants $3,563

  • PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR LOCAL COLLEGE STUDENTS SEEKING EDUCATION IN HEALTH OR SAFETY RELATED CAREERS. DURING 2024, TWO SCHOLARSHIPS WERE AWARDED FOR A TOTAL OF $ 2,500.

    Expenses $2,500 · Grants $2,500

  • PROVIDE EMERGENCY FINANCIAL AND OTHER SUPPORT TO FIRE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVUALS SERVING THE RED LODGE AREA. DURING 2024 TWO FAMILIES WERE AWARDED GRANTS TO HELP OFFSET COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH MEDICAL EMERGENGIES

    Expenses $2,153 · Grants $2,153

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.

  • Sarah A Ewald

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $67,968
    From this org
    $67,968
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    37
  • William D Bernard

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Daniel Johnson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Thomas K Kuntz

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Amy Hyfield

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Frank Pelli

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Matthew Martin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Gregg Hodges

    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
    $165,522
    Expenses
    $1,900,232
    Contributions
    $155,644
    Grants paid
    $1,793,742
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $803,483
    Expenses
    $183,800
    Contributions
    $784,273
    Grants paid
    $46,434
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $266,796
    Expenses
    $183,978
    Contributions
    $265,496
    Grants paid
    $68,899

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
    $833,237
    Expenses
    $115,491
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,570,120
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $343,124
    Expenses
    $56,158
    Assets (EOY)
    $602,943
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $111,591
    Expenses
    $58,182
    Assets (EOY)
    $313,932
  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $175,144
    Expenses
    $19,960
    Assets (EOY)
    $496,064
  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $53,543
    Expenses
    $22,029
    Assets (EOY)
    $348,161
  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $16,094
    Expenses
    $9,982
    Assets (EOY)
    $324,841
  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $16,065
    Expenses
    $11,619
    Assets (EOY)
    $327,019
  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $28,463
    Expenses
    $13,666
    Assets (EOY)
    $328,597
  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $16,908
    Expenses
    $11,830
    Assets (EOY)
    $319,918
  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $15,677
    Expenses
    $13,999
    Assets (EOY)
    $320,588

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2008

Tax period
1 January 2008 to 31 December 2008
Principal officer
Todd Wacaser
Mailing address
PO BOX 465RED LODGE MT 59068

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

  • RED LODGE FIRE DISTRICT #7

    $18,821

    2024 PURCHASE FURNITURE AND FIXTURES

  • RED LODGE FIRE DISTRICT

    $14,248

    2023 PURCHASE EQUIPMENT

  • CARBON COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE

    $9,692

    2023 PURCHASE SAR EQUIPMENT

  • RED LODGE FIRE DISTRICT

    $0

    2022 IMPROVED EQUIPMENT-FIRE DISTRICT

  • CARBON COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE

    $0

    2023 SEARCH AND RESCUE EQUIPMENT

  • RED LODGE FIRE DISTRICT #7

    $0

    2024 MOVE OWNERSHIP TO GOVT ENTITY

Where these grants went next →

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.