2025-10-28T17:54:12-07:00 2024-12-31 990EZ 2024-01-01 760633544 FIREFIGHTER MINISTRIES INC FIRE 8327571499 16918 Serenity Cove Circle Friendswood TX 77546 Wendy Norris President/Chairman 8327571499 2025-10-28 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X www.texasloddtaskforce.com X X 78726 X 78726 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 78726 0 0 0 0 2100 612 23133 25845 52881 33208 0 86089 33208 86089 0 0 0 0 33208 86089 0 0 33208 86089 To provide at-need and long-term assistance to police, fire, and EMS agencies and to families who have experienced a line-of-duty fatality, suicide, or catastrophic injury. To provide mental health resources and referrals and support to first responders seeking mental health support. Provide at-need support to first responders providing care and services during and after a disaster. Providing education on line-of-duty death and injury preparations to first responder agencies. 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 9788 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 4052 Trauma Informed Care: This program provides information and resources to First Responders suffering from mental health issues caused by repeated exposure to trauma. 0 4000 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 9712 27552 Wendy Norris Chairman 35.00 0 0 0 Billy Wusterhausen Vice Chairman 25 0 0 0 Matt Whisenant Director 5 0 0 0 John Babler Director 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TX Wendy Norris 16918 Serenity Cove Circle Friendswood TX 77546 8326476770 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 22581 55592 61376 77495 87563 304607 22581 55592 61376 77495 87563 304607 304607 15962 2223 1340 627 0 20152 324759 0 0.93795 0.90864 X Schedule A, Part I, Line 10 Reimbursement for an overcharge. Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 None Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Description;Amount^Line of Duty Death Response;9788|Family Support and Ongoing Care;4052|Trauma Informed Care for First Responders;4000|Education;5293^Total;23133^ Extension was requested so the new member of the board of directors, replacing John Norris, who died in the line of duty, could get caught up with accounting, administrative, and operational duties of the organization.