Tennessee · Nonprofit
Anderson County Volunteer Fire Department
Anderson County Volunteer Fire Department (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being Nextdoor Foundation ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $124k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $350k
What Anderson County Volunteer Fire Department does
Mission
Provide fire prevention/protection to Anderson Co. & in particular, the area within a 6 mile radius of the fire station, render fire prevention or protection or other humanitarian service when federal, state, municipal, local, or Anderson Co Volunteer Fire Department requests.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
For the year 2025 the Fire Department responded to 91 calls, including motor vehicle accidents, fires, brush, wildfires in the County, EMS, smoke detector activation and other emergencies. The Department also answered mutual aid calls. The service area covered is about 60 square miles. All of the purpose achievements were conducted by 100% volunteers who are on call and respond when dispatch calls them. There were 78 calls missed.
$84,207 spent100% of program spendingOne other particular program that the Fire Department conducted at the request of the Tennessee State Fire Marshalls office is that it provided and installed smoke detectors in 2025 in homes that requested them. The smoke detectors are provided free of charge to the Fire Department and the Fire Department installs and instructs the residents on the use of the detectors. The Fire Department does not charge anyone for this service. The Fire Department also does not incur any expenses in conducting this program, as the state of Tennessee freely provides the detectors and the volunteer firefighters provide the service for free.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $84,207.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $408k to $346k (−15%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Joe Gilliam
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Anderson County Volunteer Fire Department’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 funders by total. 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
Anderson County Volunteer Fire Department draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.
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.
Government funding Anderson County Volunteer Fire Department receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $31k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$31k
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.
Organizations like Anderson County 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Anderson County Volunteer Fire Department: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Anderson County Volunteer Fire Department?
- Anderson County Volunteer Fire Department (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being Nextdoor Foundation ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Anderson County Volunteer Fire Department have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,500 in grants to Anderson County Volunteer Fire Department.
- Who is the largest funder of Anderson County Volunteer Fire Department?
- Nextdoor Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Anderson County Volunteer Fire Department find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 2 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