Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BOWMANSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY
BOWMANSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,031 to it, the largest being BOWMANSTOWN ROD & GUN CLUB INC ($9,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $171k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $9k
- Net assets
- $574k
What Bowmanstown Volunteer Fire Company does
Mission
Volunteer fire fighting services
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Bowmanstown Volunteer Fire Company is non-profit, volunteer organization incorporated for the primary purpose of providing emergency fire fighting services. In addition the organization promotes fire prevention, education and training of volunteer fire fighters. The primary fire fighting service area is bowmanstown, pa with a population of approximately 1,000 in 365 households. The fire company is also on call for emergency fire fighting situations with the surrounding communities as well. Services are provided by active members of the community who volunteer for the organization as firefighters. Fire fighting services is an essential service for the population of bowmanstown and the surrounding communities. If such service were not provided by the organization, the applicable municipal governments would have a legal obligation to provide such services. In this way, the organization which is operated by volunteers, provides a significant savings to the taxpayers.
$91,554 spent$170,750 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $91,554.
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 2023 to 2024, from $611k to $652k (+7%).
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: 2023 11% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of BOWMANSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $16.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 BOWMANSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY’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.
How concentrated its funding is
BOWMANSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 BOWMANSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of BOWMANSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31 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.
Against its field
BOWMANSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding BOWMANSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $37k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$37k
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 BOWMANSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 BOWMANSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: 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 BOWMANSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY?
- BOWMANSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,031 to it, the largest being BOWMANSTOWN ROD & GUN CLUB INC ($9,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOWMANSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $9,031 in grants to BOWMANSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOWMANSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY?
- BOWMANSTOWN ROD & GUN CLUB INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOWMANSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2 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