Texas · Nonprofit
BARDWELL AREA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
BARDWELL AREA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Texas) 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
- $54k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $86k
What Bardwell Area Volunteer Fire Department does
Mission
Provided emergency fire fighting and first responder services to the bardwell, texas area, as well as fire prevention services and community outreach in coordination with other local public fire departments.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provided emergency fire fighting and first responder services to the bardwell, texas area, as well as fire prevention services and community outreach in coordination with other local public fire departments.
Provided emergency fire fighting and first responder services to the bardwell, texas area, as well as fire prevention services and community outreach in coordination with other local public fire departments.
$64,024 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $64,024.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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 $32k to $118k (+275%).
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.
100% of BARDWELL AREA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Against its field
BARDWELL AREA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding BARDWELL AREA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$9k
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 BARDWELL AREA 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BARDWELL AREA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- BARDWELL AREA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Texas) 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 BARDWELL AREA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to BARDWELL AREA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT.
- Who is the largest funder of BARDWELL AREA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- 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 BARDWELL AREA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2018–2025), 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