Texas · Nonprofit
BRAZOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
BRAZOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,500 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA LEE UPHAM AND CHESTER R UPHAM JR FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $97k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $356k
What Brazos Volunteer Fire Department does
Mission
To provide immediate response to fire and emergency needs in the brazos area of palo pinto county, tx and surrounding areas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provided immediate response to fire and emergency needs in the brazos area of palo pinto county, tx and surrounding areas. During 2025, the vfd responded to approximately ten calls per month. Construction of a new fire station began in late-2023 and was 65% completed by the end of 2025. Much of the work has been performed by volunteers.
$29,976 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $29,976.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $289k to $356k (+23%).
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.
100% of BRAZOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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 BRAZOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’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
BRAZOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
“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 BRAZOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT's grant income comes from Texas 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
BRAZOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BRAZOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
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 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRAZOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: 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 BRAZOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- BRAZOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,500 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA LEE UPHAM AND CHESTER R UPHAM JR FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRAZOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $3,500 in grants to BRAZOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT.
- Who is the largest funder of BRAZOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- VIRGINIA LEE UPHAM AND CHESTER R UPHAM JR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRAZOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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