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BARREN HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY

BARREN HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $361,380 to it, the largest being FIREMAN'S RELIEF ASSOC OF WHITEMARSH ($345,651). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$920k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$361k
Net assets
$4.9M
5/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Barren Hill Volunteer Fire Company does

Mission

To provide fire and rescue service for whitemarsh township

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Fire and rescue service for whitemarsh township

    $543,645 spent$3,546 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $543,645.

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 ($966k) Expenses 100 ($494k) Net assets 100 ($2.9M)2018 Revenue 65 ($628k) Expenses 98 ($484k) Net assets 99 ($2.9M)2019 Revenue 83 ($798k) Expenses 109 ($536k) Net assets 119 ($3.5M)2020 Revenue 109 ($1.0M) Expenses 133 ($658k) Net assets 140 ($4.1M)2021 Revenue 66 ($638k) Expenses 122 ($601k) Net assets 151 ($4.4M)2022 Revenue 68 ($655k) Expenses 150 ($742k) Net assets 137 ($4.0M)2023 Revenue 61 ($586k) Expenses 137 ($677k) Net assets 152 ($4.4M)2024 Revenue 95 ($920k) Expenses 135 ($666k) Net assets 166 ($4.9M)
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Revenue (95)Expenses (135)Net assets (166)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 2018 to 2019, from $3.0M to $3.7M (+24%).

$3.1M
$3.0M
$3.7M
$4.3M
$4.4M
$4.0M
$4.5M
$4.9M
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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 58% · 2018 32% · 2019 57% · 2020 64% · 2021 64% · 2022 83% · 2023 62% · 2024 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

49% of BARREN HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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.

$473k
’17
$144k
’18
$262k
’19
$392k
’20
$38k
’21
−$87k
’22
−$91k
’23
$255k
’24
2.8
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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Listed1111111112111314
Joined·+2+0+1+6+1+4+7
No longer listed·2015226
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $50 → $50k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 BARREN HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE 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

BARREN HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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

99% 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 BARREN HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY.

96%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

100% of BARREN HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

IL
PA

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. $10k 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

BARREN HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin28% · above the median
Months of reserve2.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

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

Government funding BARREN HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $420k on record.

Federal$420k
grants $420kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Homeland Security$420k

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 BARREN HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY

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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 16%Fundraising 2%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

76%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds BARREN HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY?
BARREN HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $361,380 to it, the largest being FIREMAN'S RELIEF ASSOC OF WHITEMARSH ($345,651). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BARREN HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $361,380 in grants to BARREN HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BARREN HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY?
FIREMAN'S RELIEF ASSOC OF WHITEMARSH is the largest funder on record, with $345,651 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BARREN HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE 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 6 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