2021-06-15T12:25:42-07:00 2020-12-31 990EZ 2020-01-01 760633544 FIREFIGHTER MINISTRIES INC FIRE 8327571499 PO Box 925 Friendswood TX 77549 Wendy Norris President/Chairman 8327571499 2021-06-15 1 11 0 AAL2 2020 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z X www.texasloddtaskforce.com X X 38542 X 22580 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10711 5062 5649 0 0 0 5251 33480 211 0 0 0 2755 589 36314 39869 -6389 14765 0 8376 14765 8376 0 0 0 0 14765 8376 0 0 14765 8376 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 5780 Family Assistance: This program is where we offer at-need assistance to the families who have suffered a line of duty death or a catastrophic line of duty injury. We will assist the families with financial needs by providing assistance in paying for immediate needs, such as bills, groceries, and health care. 0 2674 COVID 19 Emergency Fund: This program is where we provide at-need assistance to first responders who were faced with financial burdens linked to their exposure to COVID, such as disinfecting their homes or providing supplies for them to use to protect themselves against the spread of COVID. 0 5619 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 0 4987 19060 Wendy Norris Chairman 40 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 PO Box 925 Friendswood TX 77549 8327571499 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 68427 45657 58548 22579 22581 217792 68427 45657 58548 22579 22581 217792 217792 15375 32890 9290 3940 15962 77457 295249 0.73766 0.71919 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 and rebates from purchased items, refunds from deposits paid for fundraising events canceled due to COVID Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 10 Volunteer appeciation Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Program expenses including Line of Duty Death and Injury responses, COVID Emergency Fund for First Responders, lending library, insurance, travel for LODD education and consultations, meeting with the families and departments of fallen and injured emergency service workers, training for volunteers, Task Force awareness, Family Care kits, office supplies, and refund of fundraising event registrations because of event cancelation due to COVID. We called the IRS in May and were advised because we are in Texas, all filing dates were extended until June 15, 2021, because of the freeze disaster which caused electrical power interruption in February 2021.