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ALASKA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT

ALASKA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being GEORGE W NEILSON FOUNDATION ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$65k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$45k
Net assets
$90k
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Alaska Volunteer Fire Department does

Mission

Alaska Volunteer Fire Department is a not-for-profit entity, fully volunteer fire department. Formed in 1986, alaska fire department provides fire coverage to the rural townships of alaska, neebish, roosevelt, and maple ridge.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provide fire coverage to the rural townships of alaska, neebish, roosevelt, and maple ridge.

    $47,766 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $47,766.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($60k) Expenses 100 ($72k) Net assets 100 ($117k)2025 Revenue 108 ($65k) Expenses 64 ($46k) Net assets 77 ($90k)
20192025
Revenue (108)Expenses (64)Net assets (77)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars.

$117k
$90k
20192025
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.

2019
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of ALASKA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,797 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

−$12k
’19
$18k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
'24*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of ALASKA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’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.

Where its funders are

100% of ALASKA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

ALASKA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin29% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like ALASKA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Minnesota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

84%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds ALASKA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
ALASKA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being GEORGE W NEILSON FOUNDATION ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ALASKA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $45,000 in grants to ALASKA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ALASKA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
GEORGE W NEILSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ALASKA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), 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