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AF DOBLER HOSE AND LADDER COMPANY

AF DOBLER HOSE AND LADDER COMPANY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,731 to it, the largest being ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($5,593). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$449k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$9k
Net assets
$1.2M
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Af Dobler Hose and Ladder Company does

Mission

To provide volunteer fire department and emergency ambulance service

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Fire suppression/protection, fire prevention education, emergency ambulance/rescue service to girard township, pennsylvania which is comprised of approximately 2500 businesses and residences.

    $331,969 spentof which $500 as grants$148,233 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $331,969.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($303k) Expenses 100 ($344k) Net assets 100 ($668k)2018 Revenue 151 ($457k) Expenses 95 ($326k) Net assets 120 ($799k)2019 Revenue 97 ($295k) Expenses 98 ($338k) Net assets 113 ($757k)2020 Revenue 131 ($397k) Expenses 94 ($322k) Net assets 124 ($832k)2021 Revenue 135 ($409k) Expenses 80 ($276k) Net assets 144 ($965k)2022 Revenue 136 ($414k) Expenses 84 ($287k) Net assets 163 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 114 ($345k) Expenses 98 ($338k) Net assets 164 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 148 ($449k) Expenses 102 ($352k) Net assets 179 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (148)Expenses (102)Net assets (179)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $1.8M to $1.9M (+6%).

$1.8M
$1.9M
$1.9M
$1.9M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$2.1M
$2.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 30% · 2018 47% · 2019 20% · 2020 29% · 2021 18% · 2022 21% · 2023 15% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

30% of AF DOBLER HOSE AND LADDER COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,485 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$41k
’17
$131k
’18
−$43k
’19
$75k
’20
$134k
’21
$126k
’22
$7k
’23
$97k
’24
27
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed54444444
Joined·+3+0+1+0+1+0+0
No longer listed·4010100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $560 → $1k.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
2
1
1
2
2
1

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of AF DOBLER HOSE AND LADDER COMPANY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

AF DOBLER HOSE AND LADDER COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

68% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AF DOBLER HOSE AND LADDER COMPANY.

64%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 95% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 91% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

68% of AF DOBLER HOSE AND LADDER COMPANY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state.

NY

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AF DOBLER HOSE AND LADDER COMPANY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · above the median
Months of reserve27.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding AF DOBLER HOSE AND LADDER COMPANY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $211k on record.

Federal$211k
grants $211kcontracts $0
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23
Top agencies
  • Department of Homeland Security$211k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 1%Fundraising 2%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds AF DOBLER HOSE AND LADDER COMPANY?
AF DOBLER HOSE AND LADDER COMPANY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,731 to it, the largest being ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($5,593). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does AF DOBLER HOSE AND LADDER COMPANY have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $8,731 in grants to AF DOBLER HOSE AND LADDER COMPANY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AF DOBLER HOSE AND LADDER COMPANY?
ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,593 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AF DOBLER HOSE AND LADDER COMPANY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing