North Carolina · Nonprofit
CERRO GORDO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQUAD
CERRO GORDO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQUAD (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,462 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY FOUNDATION ($6,462). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $535k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $428k
What Cerro Gordo Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad does
Mission
To provide fire protection and rescue services to the residents of the town of cerro gordo and the surrounding areas.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To provide fire protection and rescue services to the residents of the town of cerro gordo and surrounding areas.
$342,517 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $342,517.
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.
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 $321k to $510k (+59%).
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 66% · 2018 68% · 2019 64% · 2020 66% · 2021 53% · 2022 59% · 2023 67% · 2024 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of CERRO GORDO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQUAD’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
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of CERRO GORDO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQUAD’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.
Where its funders are
CERRO GORDO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQUAD draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.
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.
Against its field
CERRO GORDO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQUAD runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CERRO GORDO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQUAD
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CERRO GORDO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQUAD?
- CERRO GORDO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQUAD (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,462 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY FOUNDATION ($6,462). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CERRO GORDO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQUAD have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,462 in grants to CERRO GORDO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQUAD, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CERRO GORDO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQUAD?
- INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,462 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CERRO GORDO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQUAD 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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