California · Nonprofit
Briceland Volunteer Fire Department
Briceland Volunteer Fire Department (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,372 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ($17,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $47k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Briceland Volunteer Fire Department does
Mission
To provide fire fighting, emergency medical and rescue services within the Briceland district area and support to other emergency service departments.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During 2023-2024 our Fire Department provided Dept. of Forestry & Fire Protection with cover assistance on 7 different incidents and Mutual Aide Support on Cal-Fire Stations, as well as sending a Strike Team to the SRF Lightning Complex in the Klamath Forest in early fall 2023. In early January 2024 we provided assistance to Humboldt Co. Office of Emergency Services, prepositioning response teams for the numerous winter storms that hit the Northcoast region. We responded to numerous fire, emergency and medical incidents in our service area. We completed our District-wide Road Mapping and Naming grant project for the numerous private rural roads in our area. This has contributed greatly to emergency response time and has tied into GIS locations with the Humboldt County mapping project. In November 2023, we were awarded a USDA/USFS Community Wildfire Defense Grant. We began a pilot project on five miles of a private road system to create a buffer fire break and safer evacuation route for residents and access for emergency responders. We continued to conduct Prescribed Burns, outreaching to areas outside our District, furthering our Fuels Hazard Reduction program as well as being a…
$405,227 spentof which $9,000 as grants$401,486 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $405,227.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $1.4M to $2.1M (+56%).
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: 2024 33% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
44% of Briceland Volunteer Fire Department’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. 1 of the last 5 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $42 → $55.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 Briceland 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
Briceland Volunteer Fire Department leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 Briceland Volunteer Fire Department.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 46% · 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 Briceland Volunteer Fire Department's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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
Briceland Volunteer Fire Department runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Briceland Volunteer Fire Department receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $643k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$643k
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 Briceland 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 Briceland 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 Briceland Volunteer Fire Department?
- Briceland Volunteer Fire Department (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,372 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ($17,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Briceland Volunteer Fire Department have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $47,372 in grants to Briceland Volunteer Fire Department, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Briceland Volunteer Fire Department?
- CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $17,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Briceland Volunteer Fire Department find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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