Texas · Nonprofit
BELLVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
BELLVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,832 to it, the largest being MARGARET CHESLEY MEMORIAL FUND ($45,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $331k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $120k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Bellville Volunteer Fire Department does
Mission
Provide fire protection for a great portion of northern austin county as well as the city of bellville acquired an additional station outside the city limits to provide even greater fire protection.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Maintain and promote a volunteer fire department with not more than 50 members for the protection and safety of the citizens of the city of bellville and northern austin county.
$376,709 spentof which $1,715 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $376,709.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.2M to $2.4M (+10%).
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 44% · 2021 37% · 2022 25% · 2023 20% · 2024 35% · 2025 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of BELLVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $11k → $10k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 BELLVILLE VOLUNTEER 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.
How concentrated its funding is
BELLVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 56% · 2019 47% · 2020 41% · 2021 41% · 2022 38% · 2023 72% — growing more concentrated.
“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 BELLVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k 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.
Against its field
BELLVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT is better cushioned than half of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BELLVILLE 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.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 BELLVILLE 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 BELLVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- BELLVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,832 to it, the largest being MARGARET CHESLEY MEMORIAL FUND ($45,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BELLVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $119,832 in grants to BELLVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BELLVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- MARGARET CHESLEY MEMORIAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $45,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BELLVILLE 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.
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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 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