Kentucky · Nonprofit
BREMEN COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
BREMEN COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being FELIX E MARTIN JR FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $100k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $92k
What Bremen Community Volunteer Fire Dept Inc does
Mission
Fire protection, rescue and basic life support
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
During the tax year, the bremen community volunteer fire department (bcvfd) provided fire protection to a rural area of 60 sq. Miles and a population of 3428. The department responded to 83 reports of fire. A total of 20 false alarms were reported, which were typically smoke/fire alarms and smoke scares.
$78,258 spent51% of program spendingIn providing on scene basic life support and rescue services, the department served the same area as that given fire protection. The bcvfd responded to 189 rescue and emergency medical responses.
$38,362 spent25% of program spendingIn addition to fire, rescue and basic life support, the bcvfd also responds to other incidents when requested. These include items such as motor vehicle accidents without injury, cover assignments, traffic control, power outages, animal welfare, law enforcement assistance, hazardous respones and miscellaneous calls. There were 35 such calls in the tax year. In addition, the department also provided fire safety education to the local elementary school and some churches.
$36,827 spent24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $153,447.
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 $222k to $305k (+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.
96% of BREMEN COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC’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. 5 of the last 9 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 BREMEN COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT 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 BREMEN COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC's grant income comes from Kentucky 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
BREMEN COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC's revenue fell 41% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding BREMEN COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $48k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$48k
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 BREMEN COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BREMEN COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC?
- BREMEN COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being FELIX E MARTIN JR FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BREMEN COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to BREMEN COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC.
- Who is the largest funder of BREMEN COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC?
- FELIX E MARTIN JR FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BREMEN COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 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