Virginia · Nonprofit
BROOKNEAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
BROOKNEAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,750 to it, the largest being WATT FOSTER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($27,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BROOKNEAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,719 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,719 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Greater Lynchburg Community Foundationshared funderslocal
- Nextdoor Foundationportfolio match
- The Leary Firefighters Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 58% · 2018 49% · 2019 47% · 2020 58% · 2021 66% · 2022 58% · 2023 49% · 2024 41% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of BROOKNEAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’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 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $7k.
From the IRS filings of BROOKNEAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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.
How concentrated its funding is
BROOKNEAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 89% · 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 BROOKNEAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 2 funders put you under-funded among the 280 organizations that share them.
- Greater Lynchburg Community Foundationshared funderslocalVA · backs 69 organizations that share your funders · funds 82 organizations near you
- Nextdoor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leary Firefighters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jt-Minnie Maude Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pee Dee Electric Membership Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fm Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Awareness of Rappahannock Electric Charityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South River Emc Community Assistance Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shingleton Tuwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Centra Health Incshared funderslocalVA · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 45 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BROOKNEAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 BROOKNEAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BROOKNEAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- BROOKNEAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,750 to it, the largest being WATT FOSTER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($27,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BROOKNEAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $39,750 in grants to BROOKNEAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROOKNEAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- WATT FOSTER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $27,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROOKNEAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing