Texas · Nonprofit
BLUE BRANCH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
BLUE BRANCH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $803 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($803). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $123k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $803
- Net assets
- $219k
What Blue Branch Volunteer Fire Department Inc does
Mission
To provide fire protection to the area in and around blue, tx and northwest lee county, tx.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
During the year the volunteer fire department responded to and extinguished residential and brush fires in and around blue, tx. The volunteer fire dept. Also assisted lexington, tanglewood and coupland volunteer fire departments in extinguishing major fires. Additionally, the blue branch vfd successfully implemented a firewise community plan for blue, tx and made blue the first certified firewise community in lee county, tx.
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $230k to $173k (−25%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $46 → $294.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 BLUE BRANCH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’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
100% of BLUE BRANCH VOLUNTEER FIRE 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $803 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLUE BRANCH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- BLUE BRANCH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $803 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($803). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BLUE BRANCH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $803 in grants to BLUE BRANCH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE BRANCH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $803 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE BRANCH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), 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