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CENTRAL ALEXANDER FIRE DEPARTMENT

CENTRAL ALEXANDER FIRE DEPARTMENT (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,722 to it, the largest being THE CANNON FOUNDATION INC ($24,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$464k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$27k
Net assets
$459k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Central Alexander Fire Department does

Mission

Fire and rescue services for the central alexander fire district

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. N/a

  2. Providing fire and rescue services for the central alexander fire district

    $522,932 spent
    100% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $522,932.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($222k) Expenses 100 ($248k) Net assets 100 ($512k)2018 Revenue 99 ($220k) Expenses 95 ($236k) Net assets 97 ($497k)2019 Revenue 101 ($225k) Expenses 105 ($261k) Net assets 90 ($461k)2020 Revenue 120 ($266k) Expenses 106 ($263k) Net assets 84 ($430k)2021 Revenue 231 ($512k) Expenses 239 ($592k) Net assets 68 ($350k)2022 Revenue 133 ($296k) Expenses 108 ($268k) Net assets 83 ($423k)2023 Revenue 177 ($393k) Expenses 141 ($348k) Net assets 92 ($471k)2024 Revenue 198 ($439k) Expenses 157 ($390k) Net assets 102 ($520k)2025 Revenue 209 ($464k) Expenses 211 ($523k) Net assets 90 ($459k)
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Revenue (209)Expenses (211)Net assets (90)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $770k to $1.1M (+46%).

$818k
$784k
$878k
$822k
$715k
$760k
$770k
$1.1M
$1.0M
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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
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 96% · 2018 85% · 2019 92% · 2020 89% · 2021 94% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% · 2024 98% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of CENTRAL ALEXANDER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,485 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$26k
’17
−$15k
’18
−$36k
’19
$3k
’20
−$80k
’21
$27k
’22
$45k
’23
$49k
’24
−$59k
’25
9.9
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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Listed121212101010888
Joined·+4+0+0+0+1+0+0+0
No longer listed·40201200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
'24*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of CENTRAL ALEXANDER 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

CENTRAL ALEXANDER FIRE DEPARTMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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

90%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

90% of CENTRAL ALEXANDER FIRE DEPARTMENT's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

RI
NC

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CENTRAL ALEXANDER FIRE DEPARTMENT has grown faster than half of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve9.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding CENTRAL ALEXANDER FIRE DEPARTMENT receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $233k on record.

Federal$233k
grants $233kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Homeland Security$233k

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 CENTRAL ALEXANDER 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 North Carolina

Nationally

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

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CENTRAL ALEXANDER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
CENTRAL ALEXANDER FIRE DEPARTMENT (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,722 to it, the largest being THE CANNON FOUNDATION INC ($24,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CENTRAL ALEXANDER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $26,722 in grants to CENTRAL ALEXANDER FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL ALEXANDER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
THE CANNON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $24,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTRAL ALEXANDER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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.

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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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