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Belle Fire Department

Belle Fire Department (West Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,398 to it, the largest being TC ENERGY FOUNDATION ($9,398). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$159k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$9k
Net assets
$1.0M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Belle Fire Department does

Mission

Provide the town of belle, wv and local area with fire fighting equipment and services in order to save lives and property

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide the town of belle, wv and local area with fire fighting equipment and services in order to save lives and property

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($135k) Expenses 100 ($110k) Net assets 100 ($316k)2021 Revenue 199 ($270k) Expenses 66 ($73k) Net assets 162 ($514k)2022 Revenue 123 ($166k) Expenses 94 ($103k) Net assets 182 ($577k)2023 Revenue 146 ($197k) Expenses 130 ($143k) Net assets 200 ($631k)2024 Revenue 149 ($202k) Expenses 123 ($135k) Net assets 237 ($749k)2025 Revenue 118 ($159k) Expenses 137 ($150k) Net assets 319 ($1.0M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (118)Expenses (137)Net assets (319)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 2024 to 2025, from $749k to $1.2M (+59%).

$316k
$514k
$577k
$631k
$749k
$1.2M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 35% · 2022 58% · 2023 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of Belle Fire Department’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$26k
’20
$197k
’21
$63k
’22
$55k
’23
$67k
’24
$9k
’25
16
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.

Board chair

Larry Daugherty

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed67777
Joined·+1+0+0+4
No longer listed·0004
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'20
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of Belle 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

Belle Fire Department draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside West Virginia, across 1 state in all.

TX

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

Belle Fire Department is better cushioned than half of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · below the median
Months of reserve16.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Belle 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 West Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 100%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Belle 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 Belle Fire Department?
Belle Fire Department (West Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,398 to it, the largest being TC ENERGY FOUNDATION ($9,398). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Belle Fire Department have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $9,398 in grants to Belle Fire Department.
Who is the largest funder of Belle Fire Department?
TC ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,398 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Belle Fire Department find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. 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 2020–2025), 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