Delaware · Nonprofit
CHRISTIANA FIRE COMPANY INC
CHRISTIANA FIRE COMPANY INC (Delaware) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,740 to it, the largest being THE ACIERNO FAMILY FOUNDATION JOHN YANNACONE AND MICHAEL ACIERNO ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.1M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Christiana Fire Company Inc does
Mission
To provide the highest levels of quality fire suppression, rescue, emergency medical services and public safety education that exceed the expectations of our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The company provides fire and ambulance services for the residents of christiana, bear and glasgow areas of new castle county, delaware which is comprised of approximately 100,000 residents. The company is a combination of paid and volunteer staff.
$8,030,802 spent$4,816,056 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,030,802.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $10M to $13M (+27%).
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: 2019 42% · 2020 37% · 2021 42% · 2022 41% · 2023 49% · 2024 33% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $116 → $96.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CHRISTIANA FIRE COMPANY 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
CHRISTIANA FIRE COMPANY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 62% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
88% of CHRISTIANA FIRE COMPANY INC's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $394 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Government funding CHRISTIANA FIRE COMPANY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.9M on record — $387k federal, $9.5M state.
- Department of Homeland Security$387k
- DE$9.5M
- NJ$159
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 CHRISTIANA FIRE COMPANY 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHRISTIANA FIRE COMPANY 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CHRISTIANA FIRE COMPANY INC?
- CHRISTIANA FIRE COMPANY INC (Delaware) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,740 to it, the largest being THE ACIERNO FAMILY FOUNDATION JOHN YANNACONE AND MICHAEL ACIERNO ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHRISTIANA FIRE COMPANY INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $11,740 in grants to CHRISTIANA FIRE COMPANY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHRISTIANA FIRE COMPANY INC?
- THE ACIERNO FAMILY FOUNDATION JOHN YANNACONE AND MICHAEL ACIERNO is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHRISTIANA FIRE COMPANY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Christiana Fire Company →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 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