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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 FOUN ($4,972). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$5k
Net assets
$1.6M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Charlestown Volunteer Fire Department Inc does

Mission

To fight fires, maintain fire fighting equipment, and otherwise provide fire protection and fire prevention services.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide fire protection and emergency services for the general public.

    $716,447 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $716,447.

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 ($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)
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Revenue (170)Expenses (328)Net assets (123)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 2019 to 2020, from $1.7M to $2.5M (+50%).

$1.5M
$1.7M
$1.7M
$2.5M
$2.7M
$2.6M
$2.7M
$2.6M
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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
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 (69% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 852 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

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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Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000000
03Who 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.

04Its place in the field

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

Organizations like CHARLESTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC

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 Indiana

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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

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

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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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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 FOUN ($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 FOUN 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 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