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CAPE FEAR RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC

CAPE FEAR RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$823k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$0
Net assets
$1.4M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Cape Fear Rural Fire Department Inc does

Mission

The vfd was created for the purpose of providing fire protection in the cape fear fire service district, lee county, north carolina, and the town of broadway, north carolina.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The vfd was created for the purpose of providing fire protection in the cape fear fire service district, lee county, north carolina, and the town of broadway, north carolina. During the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, the vfd responded to 360 calls.

    $840,670 spent$813,947 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $840,670.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($330k) Expenses 100 ($282k) Net assets 100 ($706k)2019 Revenue 118 ($389k) Expenses 99 ($280k) Net assets 128 ($901k)2020 Revenue 119 ($392k) Expenses 108 ($303k) Net assets 140 ($990k)2021 Revenue 138 ($456k) Expenses 125 ($351k) Net assets 155 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 144 ($474k) Expenses 143 ($405k) Net assets 165 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 164 ($542k) Expenses 172 ($485k) Net assets 173 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 211 ($696k) Expenses 184 ($520k) Net assets 207 ($1.5M)2025 Revenue 250 ($823k) Expenses 299 ($843k) Net assets 204 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (250)Expenses (299)Net assets (204)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.4M to $1.7M (+20%).

$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.7M
$1.7M
$1.7M
$1.7M
$1.8M
$1.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 2% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$48k
’17
$109k
’19
$88k
’20
$105k
’21
$70k
’22
$57k
’23
$176k
’24
−$20k
’25
17
months of
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.

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Listed10109999109
Joined··+0+0+1+0+1+0
No longer listed··101001
03Who funds it
04Its place in the field

Organizations like CAPE FEAR RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds CAPE FEAR RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
CAPE FEAR RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CAPE FEAR RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to CAPE FEAR RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.
Who is the largest funder of CAPE FEAR RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAPE FEAR RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 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