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The Lincoln County Fire-Rescue Association Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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The Lincoln County Fire-Rescue Association Inc

To coordinate the efforts of the fire and rescue departments that serve the residents and visitors of Lincoln County.

$35k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Public Safety & Disaster$295kEmployment$13k
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $27,719, the rows itemized in this filing. The $35,489 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,770 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$10,323
Median grant
1
States reached
$93k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH BROOK VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC$10,500
ORE BANK PUMPKIN CENTER VFD INC$10,323
LINCOLN FIRE DEPARTMENT$6,896
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOWARD'S CREEK VFD: $27k → 9%EAST LINCOLN FIRE DEPT INC: $14k → 12%HOWARD'S CREEK VFD: $21k → 9%EAST LINCOLN FIRE DEPT INC: $8k → 12%LINCOLNTON FIRE DEPARTMENT: $20k → 9%EAST LINCOLN FIRE DEPT INC: $7k → 12%HOWARD'S CREEK VFD: $18k → 9%ALEXIS VFD: $13k → 12%NORTH 321 VOL FIRE DEPT INC: $14k → 9%ALEXIS FIRE DEPARTMENT: $11k → 12%SOUTHFORK VFD: $13k → 9%ALEXIS FIRE DEPARTMENT: $7k → 12%LINCOLNTON FIRE DEPARTMENT: $10k → 9%HOWARD'S CREEK VFD: $9k → 9%NORTH 321 VOL FIRE DEPT INC: $7k → 9%LINCOLN FIRE DEPARTMENT: $7k → 9%HOWARD'S CREEK VFD: $6k → 9%LINCOLNTON FIRE DEPARTMENT: $6k → 9%NORTH BROOK VOL FIRE DEPT INC: $11k → 9%NORTH BROOK VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $11k → 9%NORTH BROOK VOL FIRE DEPT INC: $6k → 9%DENVER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $21k → 9%ORE BANK PUMPKIN CENTER VFD INC: $13k → 9%DENVER VFD: $12k → 9%ORE BANK PUMPKIN CENTER VFD INC: $10k → 9%ORE BANK PUMPKIN CENTER VFD INC: $8k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$295k · 8 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$295k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+128%
+128%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • HC
    HOWARDS CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $81k · revenue +105%
  • DV
    DENVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTINC
    2× · 2018–2021 · $32k · revenue +210%
  • OP
    ORE-BANK PUMPKIN CENTER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $32k · revenue +128%

Funded once

  • SF
    SOUTH FORK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPTgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +128%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 9 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
7/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOWARDS CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $81,017 · Public Safety & DisasterHOWARDS CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INCORE-BANK PUMPKIN CENTER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $31,956 · Public Safety & DisasterORE-BANK PUMPKIN CENTER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INCEAST LINCOLN FIRE DEPARTMENT STATION #3: $28,000 · Public Safety & DisasterEAST LINCOLN FIRE DEPARTMENT STATION #3North Brook Fire and Rescue Inc: $27,308 · Public Safety & DisasterNorth Brook Fire and Rescue IncNORTH 321 VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $20,546 · Public Safety & DisasterNORTH 321 VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INCSOUTH FORK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $12,737 · Public Safety & DisasterSOUTH FORK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPTLINCOLNTON FIRE DEPARTMENT: $42,688 · OtherLINCOLNTON FIRE DEPARTMENTDENVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTINC: $32,274 · OtherDENVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTINCALEXIS VFD: $31,308 · OtherALEXIS VFD
Public Safety & Disaster$201,564Other$106,270

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOWARDS CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $81,017 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetDENVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTINC: $32,274 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetORE-BANK PUMPKIN CENTER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $31,956 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetEAST LINCOLN FIRE DEPARTMENT STATION #3: $28,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNorth Brook Fire and Rescue Inc: $27,308 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetNORTH 321 VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $20,546 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSOUTH FORK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $12,737 over 1y, 3.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Lincoln County Fire-Rescue Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lincoln County Fire-Rescue Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to The Lincoln County Fire-Rescue Association Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 9 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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