2023-10-10T08:47:36-07:00 2022-12-31 990EZ 2022-01-01 760633544 FIREFIGHTER MINISTRIES INC FIRE 8327571499 16918 Serenity Cove Circle Friendswood TX 77546 Wendy Norris President/Chairman 8327571499 2023-10-10 1 1 11 1 AAL2 X 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X X www.texasloddtaskforce.com X X 62716 X 61376 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1310 0 1310 0 0 0 30 62716 43 0 0 0 1718 876 49476 52113 10603 8634 0 19237 8634 19237 0 0 0 0 8634 19237 0 0 8634 19237 To provide at-need and long-term assistance to police, fire, and EMS agencies, and to the families who have experienced a line of duty fatality or catastrophic injury. Line of Duty Death Response: This program is where we offer at-need assistance to families and first responder agencies that have suffered a line of duty death. A team of volunteers from our organization will travel to the affected department to assist with the funeral arrangements, crisis management, counseling, benefits filing, and referrals to local organizations for additional help. Team members will stay in the affected location in order to provide the services listed above. Each response requires a minimum of one volunteer but additional volunteers are utilized depending on the needs of the family and the affected agency. 0 19199 Family Meet and Greets: This program allows family members an opportunity to meet with other survivor families and assist each other through the healing process. 0 3448 Trauma Informed Care: This program provides information and resources to First Responders suffering from mental health issues caused by repeated exposure to trauma. 0 2784 Other programs include a lending library where we provide an extensive library for families, agencies, and volunteers to borrow books and resources on topics such as grief, suicide prevention, survivors guilt, crisis counseling, and trauma; Family Care Kits are provided to families and include pamphlets, brochures, books, and a small gift to aid in the comfort of their grief; Education is provided to police, fire, and EMS agencies as well as our volunteers to assist them in preparing for a LODD, LODI, suicide prevention, and suicide survival, this includes one-on-one and department-wide training; Our Task Force Awareness program reaches out to emergency service agencies and provides information about the Task Force provides and programs it provides; Our Honor Guard Program provides training to departments and individuals who wish to honor the fallen by standing watch over the body of a fallen First Responder. 0 10552 35983 Wendy Norris Chairman 30 0 0 0 Billy Wusterhausen Vice Chairman 10 0 0 0 Matt Whisenant Director 10 0 0 0 John Norris Director 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TX John Norris 16918 Serenity Cove Circle Friendswood TX 77546 8327571499 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 58548 22579 22581 55592 61376 220676 58548 22579 22581 55592 61376 220676 220676 9290 3940 15962 2223 1340 32755 253431 0.87075 0.76118 X Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 Income from fundraising, rebates, and refunds RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 8 Refunds from returned items/merchandise Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 10 Cards to show appreciation to our volunteers Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Program expenses including Line of Duty Death response, Line of Duty Injury response, lending library, insurance, travel of LODD education and consultations, meeting with families and departments of fallen and injured emergency service workers, training for volunteers, Task Force Awareness, Family Care kits, Virtual/Online Support, and office supplies An extension for the 2022 tax year was filed and accepted on 05/01/2023