- Revenue 2025
- $352,990
- Expenses 2025
- $379,137
Program services were 96.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- M24
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- PO BOX 112
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
The Muenster Volunteer Fire Department is organized to provide fire protection to rural areas in Cooke County including the Muenster area. The department is a first responder in the immediate Muenster area for fires, wrecks, and rescue operations, and responds as secondary responder to assist other Cooke County Volunteer Fire Departments when the need arises.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Volunteer Fire DepartmentExtinguish fires and assist with medical emergencies.
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The Fire Department provided fire protection for the Muenster & Cooke County community areas including mutual aid to other county fire departments. During the year, the department responded to appoximately 281 fires/wrecks/rescues.
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Expenses $364,525
As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
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.
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Assistant Training Officer
Andy Flusche
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Assistant Training Officer
Darian Peters
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Safety Officer
Erik Walterscheid
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Safety Officer
Michael Fleitman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Trustee
Doug Fleitman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Trustee
Nolan Hartman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Trustee
Ronnie Walterscheid
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Mitch Creed
Chief
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Deano Bayer
Assistant Chief
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
-
Jeff Maas
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
-
Secretary
Jon Forshee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Training Coordinator
Ben Bindel
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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
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2025
- Revenue
- $352,990
- Expenses
- $379,137
- Contributions
- $126,945
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $275,693
- Expenses
- $324,699
- Contributions
- $255,047
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $410,919
- Expenses
- $278,761
- Contributions
- $410,846
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $290,064
- Expenses
- $181,564
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,375,474
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $122,493
- Expenses
- $224,601
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,266,974
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $265,297
- Expenses
- $297,081
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,369,130
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $483,195
- Expenses
- $297,138
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,400,914
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $460,364
- Expenses
- $181,398
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,214,857
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $647,664
- Expenses
- $152,208
- Assets (EOY)
- $935,891
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $239,122
- Expenses
- $172,075
- Assets (EOY)
- $440,435
-
2014 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $107,590
- Expenses
- $139,540
- Assets (EOY)
- $373,388
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2013 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $119,599
- Expenses
- $147,645
- Assets (EOY)
- $405,338
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
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
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$30,000
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
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2025 ANNUAL DONATION
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
- Exemption revoked 15 May 2010, reinstated 15 September 2011.
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.