North Carolina · Nonprofit
BLUE RIDGE FIRE & RESCUE INC
BLUE RIDGE FIRE & RESCUE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being W KLOPMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $500
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Blue Ridge Fire & Rescue Inc does
Mission
To provide fire protection services to the blue ridge fire district of henderson county, nc.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Combination fire department - responded to over 2,700 calls in 2024.
$3,147,332 spent$3,402,240 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,147,332.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.0M to $4.1M (+37%).
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 2% · 2023 11% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of BLUE RIDGE FIRE & RESCUE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (69% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Kemper Henderson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BLUE RIDGE FIRE & RESCUE 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 RIDGE FIRE & RESCUE INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
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
BLUE RIDGE FIRE & RESCUE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding BLUE RIDGE FIRE & RESCUE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$10k
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 BLUE RIDGE FIRE & RESCUE 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 BLUE RIDGE FIRE & RESCUE 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 BLUE RIDGE FIRE & RESCUE INC?
- BLUE RIDGE FIRE & RESCUE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being W KLOPMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUE RIDGE FIRE & RESCUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500 in grants to BLUE RIDGE FIRE & RESCUE INC.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE RIDGE FIRE & RESCUE INC?
- W KLOPMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE RIDGE FIRE & RESCUE 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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