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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.

$629k
Revenue FY2025
10
Funders on record
$328k
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
6/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%

Against its field

Block Island Volunter Fire & Rescue Department (Inc) has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,719 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin27% · above the median
Months of reserve12.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,719 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($216k) Expenses 100 ($215k) Net assets 100 ($761k)2018 Revenue 285 ($617k) Expenses 349 ($752k) Net assets 81 ($618k)2019 Revenue 170 ($367k) Expenses 177 ($380k) Net assets 81 ($613k)2020 Revenue 234 ($506k) Expenses 161 ($346k) Net assets 102 ($777k)2021 Revenue 338 ($732k) Expenses 406 ($875k) Net assets 83 ($630k)2022 Revenue 192 ($415k) Expenses 193 ($416k) Net assets 79 ($600k)2023 Revenue 354 ($766k) Expenses 253 ($545k) Net assets 108 ($824k)2024 Revenue 252 ($544k) Expenses 230 ($494k) Net assets 115 ($873k)2025 Revenue 291 ($629k) Expenses 213 ($458k) Net assets 137 ($1.0M)
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Revenue (291)Expenses (213)Net assets (137)Peer revenue range

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
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,472 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$903
17
$135k
18
$13k
19
$160k
20
$143k
21
$943
22
$221k
23
$50k
24
$171k
25
13
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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).

41%
largest funder
69%
top three
~4
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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.

NY
CT
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Rhode Island out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $248k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Block Island Volunter Fire & Rescue Department (Inc)

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Rhode Island

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 4%Fundraising 3%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

RI

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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

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 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing