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Montana · Public charity

Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department

To provide fire protection, ambulance services, and mutual aid to rural communities located in north central montana. The vfd is the first responder for these operations, serving approximately 2,000 residents in 1,400 square mile area.

$21k
Granted FY2021
1
Itemized grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$17k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$16,500
Largest grant, FY2021
$16,500
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$611k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Big Sandy Medical Center Inc$16,50010%

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About Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department

How much does Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department give?
Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department reported 1 itemized grants totaling $16,500, out of $20,601 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2021, its largest causes are Health (100%).
Who are Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2021: Big Sandy Medical Center Inc ($17k).
Where is Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department based?
Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department is based in MT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 1 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $20k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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