Rhode Island · Nonprofit
Block Island Volunter Fire & Rescue Department (Inc)
Block Island Volunter Fire & Rescue Department (Inc) (Rhode Island) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $328,095 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($134,050). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $629k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $328k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Block Island Volunter Fire & Rescue Department (Inc) does
Mission
Preserve & Protect Life & Property and Provide Assistance in Medical Emergencies 365 Days a Year to the Entire Island Community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fire Department - Responds to all alarms and calls 365 days a year. Also conducts training and fire safety awareness for the entire island community.
$284,573 spentof which $8,980 as grants66% of program spendingResecue Squad - Responds to medical emergencies and provides transportation for such emergencies to the Block Island Medical Center and other medical facilities 365 days a year. Also conducts training for the entire Island community (CPR, First Aid, Etc.)
$144,961 spent34% of program spendingLadies Auxiliary conducts fundraisers & supports Fire & Rescue Departments as needed.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $429,534.
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 2022 to 2023, from $643k to $848k (+32%).
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 30% · 2018 61% · 2019 49% · 2020 36% · 2021 29% · 2022 62% · 2023 36% · 2024 57% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Block Island Volunter Fire & Rescue Department (Inc)’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $8k → $91k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 Block Island Volunter Fire & Rescue Department (Inc)’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 funders by total. 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
Block Island Volunter Fire & Rescue Department (Inc) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Block Island Volunter Fire & Rescue Department (Inc).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 86% · 2019 85% · 2020 79% · 2021 43% · 2022 89% · 2023 36% — 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.
How long its funders stay
80% of Block Island Volunter Fire & Rescue Department (Inc)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
76% of Block Island Volunter Fire & Rescue Department (Inc)'s grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $80k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Rhode Island, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $248k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Block Island Volunter Fire & Rescue Department (Inc) has grown faster than three-quarters 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 Block Island Volunter Fire & Rescue 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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Block Island Volunter Fire & Rescue 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 Block Island Volunter Fire & Rescue Department (Inc)?
- Block Island Volunter Fire & Rescue Department (Inc) (Rhode Island) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $328,095 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($134,050). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Block Island Volunter Fire & Rescue Department (Inc) have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $328,095 in grants to Block Island Volunter Fire & Rescue Department (Inc), 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Block Island Volunter Fire & Rescue Department (Inc)?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $134,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Block Island Volunter Fire & Rescue Department (Inc) find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 10 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