Ohio · Nonprofit
Buckeye Hook & Ladder
Buckeye Hook & Ladder (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,800 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($10,150). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $89k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $85k
What Buckeye Hook & Ladder does
Mission
Volunteer fire department
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization served as a volunteer fire department for the village of North Baltimore, Ohio.
$39,122 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $39,122.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $44k to $85k (+92%).
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 Buckeye Hook & Ladder’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $23k → $400.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 Buckeye Hook & Ladder’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
Buckeye Hook & Ladder leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 Buckeye Hook & Ladder.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 44% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
Buckeye Hook & Ladder draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
Buckeye Hook & Ladder runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,076 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,076 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Buckeye Hook & Ladder
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
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 Buckeye Hook & Ladder: 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 Buckeye Hook & Ladder?
- Buckeye Hook & Ladder (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,800 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($10,150). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Buckeye Hook & Ladder have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $23,800 in grants to Buckeye Hook & Ladder, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Buckeye Hook & Ladder?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Buckeye Hook & Ladder find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 5 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