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CHARLESTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC

CHARLESTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,972 to it, the largest being Greater North Clark Healthcare Fdn ($4,972). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.3M
Revenue FY2024
1
Funders on record
$5k
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
0/1 repeat funders

Against its field

CHARLESTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC's revenue grew 70% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−3% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($787k) Expenses 100 ($422k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 77 ($609k) Expenses 113 ($476k) Net assets 110 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 66 ($519k) Expenses 121 ($509k) Net assets 111 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 69 ($540k) Expenses 124 ($523k) Net assets 112 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 83 ($653k) Expenses 128 ($542k) Net assets 121 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 85 ($665k) Expenses 139 ($587k) Net assets 126 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 94 ($742k) Expenses 170 ($716k) Net assets 126 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 170 ($1.3M) Expenses 328 ($1.4M) Net assets 123 ($1.6M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (170)Expenses (328)Net assets (123)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 100% · 2018 83% · 2019 97% · 2022 96% · 2023 96% · 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of CHARLESTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (71% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 856 orgs

Surplus & reserves

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

$365k
’17
$133k
’18
$10k
’19
$17k
’20
$111k
’21
$79k
’22
$26k
’23
−$42k
’24
4.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of CHARLESTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’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

100% of CHARLESTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

IN

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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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.

Organizations like CHARLESTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC

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 Indiana

Central Perry Volunteer Dept I84%Cloverdale Township Volunteer Fire Department Inc84%Westville Community Volunteer Fire Department Inc84%Ireland Volunteer Fire Department Inc83%Center Township Volunteer Fire83%Hope Volunteer Fire Department Inc83%Advance Volunteer Fire Department Inc83%McCutchanville Volunteer Fire Dept Inc83%

Nationally

Cherry Lane Volunteer Fire Dept Inc85%The Volunteer Fire Department of Carroll Township85%Claysburg Volunteer Fire Co85%Claridge Volunteer Fire Department84%Corinth-Shiloh Volunteer Fire Dept84%Central Perry Volunteer Dept I84%Forward Township Volunteer Fire Company84%Charleroi Volunteer Fire Department84%
04Profile & 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

32
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHARLESTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: 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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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 CHARLESTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
CHARLESTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,972 to it, the largest being Greater North Clark Healthcare Fdn ($4,972). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHARLESTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $4,972 in grants to CHARLESTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.
Who is the largest funder of CHARLESTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
Greater North Clark Healthcare Fdn is the largest funder on record, with $4,972 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHARLESTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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