California · Nonprofit
BELL CANYON VOLUNTEER WILDLAND FIRE DEPT
BELL CANYON VOLUNTEER WILDLAND FIRE DEPT (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,201 to it, the largest being FEINGOLD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $17k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $296k
What Bell Canyon Volunteer Wildland Fire Dept does
Mission
Suppression and prevention of brush fires in bell canyon
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Forty homes were destroyed and another twenty were badly damaged in Bell Canyon during the Woolsey Fire. Local fire departments were spread so thin that Bell Canyon had little protection and thus the destruction and damage of almost 10% of the homes.The Bell Canyon Volunteer Fire Department was established to prevent wildfires, perform fire suppression, perform limited emergency medical services and rattlesnake removal. We are working in support and to supplement local agencies.
$63,687 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $63,687.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $167k to $380k (+128%).
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.
41% of BELL CANYON VOLUNTEER WILDLAND FIRE DEPT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Garrett Clancy
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $4k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 BELL CANYON VOLUNTEER WILDLAND FIRE DEPT’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
BELL CANYON VOLUNTEER WILDLAND FIRE DEPT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — diversifying over time.
“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
BELL CANYON VOLUNTEER WILDLAND FIRE DEPT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $201 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
BELL CANYON VOLUNTEER WILDLAND FIRE DEPT's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 52 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like BELL CANYON VOLUNTEER WILDLAND FIRE DEPT
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BELL CANYON VOLUNTEER WILDLAND FIRE DEPT?
- BELL CANYON VOLUNTEER WILDLAND FIRE DEPT (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,201 to it, the largest being FEINGOLD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BELL CANYON VOLUNTEER WILDLAND FIRE DEPT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15,201 in grants to BELL CANYON VOLUNTEER WILDLAND FIRE DEPT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BELL CANYON VOLUNTEER WILDLAND FIRE DEPT?
- FEINGOLD FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BELL CANYON VOLUNTEER WILDLAND FIRE DEPT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), 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