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AFTON-ELBERON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC

AFTON-ELBERON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$333k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$0
Net assets
$513k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Afton-Elberon Volunteer Fire Department Inc does

Mission

Volunteer fire protection

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide fire protection to the surrounding community on a volunteer basis.

    $426,994 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $426,994.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($144k) Expenses 100 ($94k) Net assets 100 ($335k)2018 Revenue 97 ($140k) Expenses 116 ($108k) Net assets 109 ($367k)2019 Revenue 96 ($138k) Expenses 121 ($113k) Net assets 117 ($391k)2020 Revenue 212 ($305k) Expenses 177 ($166k) Net assets 158 ($530k)2021 Revenue 539 ($777k) Expenses 254 ($238k) Net assets 318 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 207 ($299k) Expenses 404 ($379k) Net assets 295 ($988k)2023 Revenue 167 ($241k) Expenses 434 ($408k) Net assets 245 ($821k)2024 Revenue 122 ($175k) Expenses 455 ($427k) Net assets 170 ($569k)2025 Revenue 231 ($333k) Expenses 415 ($389k) Net assets 153 ($513k)
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Revenue (231)Expenses (415)Net assets (153)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.3M to $1.8M (+37%).

$873k
$863k
$858k
$1.3M
$1.8M
$1.7M
$1.5M
$1.2M
$1.1M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 48% · 2021 65% · 2022 46% · 2023 33% · 2024 6% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$50k
’17
$31k
’18
$25k
’19
$138k
’20
$538k
’21
−$80k
’22
−$167k
’23
−$252k
’24
−$56k
’25
4.3
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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Listed555555555
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·00000000
03Who funds it
04Its place in the field

Government funding AFTON-ELBERON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $859k on record.

Federal$859k
grants $859kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Homeland Security$859k

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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In North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds AFTON-ELBERON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
AFTON-ELBERON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AFTON-ELBERON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to AFTON-ELBERON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.
Who is the largest funder of AFTON-ELBERON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AFTON-ELBERON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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