Texas · Nonprofit
CAT SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN
CAT SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,505 to it, the largest being Gates Family Foundation ($69,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CAT SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN has grown faster 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.
- Leon & Beatrice Obenhaus Grodhaus Foundationlocal
- 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 7% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2021 83% · 2022 3% · 2023 7% · 2024 87% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of CAT SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN’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 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $14k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 CAT SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN’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
CAT SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 90% · 2021 98% · 2022 76% · 2023 85% — diversifying over time.
“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
54% of CAT SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $505 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Leon & Beatrice Obenhaus Grodhaus FoundationlocalTX · funds 6 organizations near you
- Nextdoor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leary Firefighters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Lee Upham and Chester R Upham Jr Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kathryn O'Connor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mid-South Resource Conservation and Development Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gvec Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fm Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Overlake Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David and Eula Wintermann FoundationlocalTX · funds 7 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.
Government funding CAT SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $965k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$965k
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 CAT SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 CAT SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN: 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 CAT SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN?
- CAT SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,505 to it, the largest being Gates Family Foundation ($69,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAT SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $152,505 in grants to CAT SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAT SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN?
- Gates Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $69,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAT SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 7funders 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