North Carolina · Nonprofit
CHERRY LANE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
CHERRY LANE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,100 to it, the largest being PATRICIA E & JOHN D BASSETT III FOUNDATION ($23,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $450k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Cherry Lane Volunteer Fire Dept Inc does
Mission
To provide fire protection services and basic emergency medical services to their community when ever needed
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization answered all calls for service timely and efficiently in accordance with all state standards for volunteer fire departments. The organization maintained their insurance rating so the community they served qualified for a discount on their fire insurance policies. They provided all service whenever requested and as needed to the best of their abilities equally to everyone.
$337,452 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $337,452.
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 $1.7M to $2.2M (+29%).
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 49% · 2018 36% · 2019 48% · 2020 40% · 2021 84% · 2022 77% · 2023 70% · 2024 88% · 2025 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of CHERRY LANE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $2k → $14k.
From the IRS filings of CHERRY LANE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT 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.
How concentrated its funding is
CHERRY LANE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 89%; 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 67% · 2018 78% · 2019 56% · 2020 80% · 2021 57% · 2022 45% · 2023 71% — growing more concentrated.
“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
CHERRY LANE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states 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
CHERRY LANE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHERRY LANE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
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In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHERRY LANE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT 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 CHERRY LANE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC?
- CHERRY LANE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,100 to it, the largest being PATRICIA E & JOHN D BASSETT III FOUNDATION ($23,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHERRY LANE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $50,100 in grants to CHERRY LANE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHERRY LANE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC?
- PATRICIA E & JOHN D BASSETT III FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $23,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHERRY LANE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC 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 7 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