Tennessee · Nonprofit
Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department
Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,000 to it, the largest being ALBEMARLE FOUNDATION ($8,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $610k
What Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department does
Mission
To provide fire protection services to the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To provide fire protection services to the community.
$49,827 spent$9,042 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $49,827.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $596k to $543k (−9%).
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: 2017 58% · 2018 59% · 2019 66% · 2020 21% · 2021 66% · 2022 77% · 2023 74% · 2024 65% · 2025 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department’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. 5 of the last 9 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
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of Big Sandy 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.
Where its funders are
Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $39k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$39k
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 Big Sandy 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 Big Sandy 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 Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department?
- Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,000 to it, the largest being ALBEMARLE FOUNDATION ($8,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $8,000 in grants to Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department?
- ALBEMARLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2017–2025), 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