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BLACK CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC

BLACK CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$548k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$0
Net assets
$1.5M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Black Creek Volunteer Fire Department Inc does

Mission

Fire protection services

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Providing fire protection services for people in and around the town of black creek, nc.

    $320,577 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $320,577.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($263k) Expenses 100 ($181k) Net assets 100 ($620k)2018 Revenue 118 ($312k) Expenses 111 ($201k) Net assets 118 ($731k)2019 Revenue 118 ($311k) Expenses 116 ($209k) Net assets 134 ($833k)2020 Revenue 120 ($316k) Expenses 111 ($201k) Net assets 153 ($948k)2021 Revenue 122 ($322k) Expenses 117 ($212k) Net assets 171 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 165 ($434k) Expenses 188 ($341k) Net assets 186 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 146 ($385k) Expenses 186 ($337k) Net assets 193 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 161 ($424k) Expenses 158 ($287k) Net assets 215 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 208 ($548k) Expenses 195 ($354k) Net assets 247 ($1.5M)
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Revenue (208)Expenses (195)Net assets (247)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $949k to $2.8M (+197%).

$835k
$933k
$834k
$949k
$2.8M
$2.6M
$2.6M
$2.7M
$2.9M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 98% · 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 81% · 2023 87% · 2024 84% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$82k
’17
$111k
’18
$102k
’19
$115k
’20
$110k
’21
$93k
’22
$48k
’23
$137k
’24
$195k
’25
22
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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Listed333333333
Joined·+0+2+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·02000000
03Who funds it
04Its place in the field

Organizations like BLACK CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC

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 North Carolina

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Nationally

Reems Creek Valley Fire Department Inc84%Cooleemee Volunteer Fire Department84%Cove Creek-Pearson Volunteer Fire Dept83%Snowville Volunteer Fire Dept Inc82%Washington Valley Volunteer Fire Company Inc81%Gilmer Volunteer Fire Department81%Sugarcreek Township Volunteer Fire Co81%Dolphin Volunteer Fire Department81%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
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 BLACK CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: 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 BLACK CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
BLACK CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BLACK CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to BLACK CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.
Who is the largest funder of BLACK CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BLACK CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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