New York · Nonprofit
Cicero Volunteer Fire Department Inc
Cicero Volunteer Fire Department Inc (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $620 to it, the largest being THE PFIZER FOUNDATION INC ($550). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $459k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $620
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Cicero Volunteer Fire Department Inc does
Mission
The Cicero Volunteer Fire Department's mission is to provide community fire protection as well as emergency call response in local mutual aid system.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
The Cicero Volunteer Fire Department provides fire protection and emergency services to the public in the greater Cicero area. In addition to fire protection, the department teaches fire safety and prevention to children and their families. The department also trains their own personnel with the latest technology.
$267,562 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $267,562.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.8M to $4.7M (+24%).
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 27% · 2020 0% · 2021 14% · 2022 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of Cicero Volunteer Fire Department Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $14 → $24.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 Cicero 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Cicero Volunteer Fire Department Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 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
100% of Cicero Volunteer Fire Department Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70 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.
Against its field
Cicero Volunteer Fire Department Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,854 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,854 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Government funding Cicero Volunteer Fire Department Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $271k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$271k
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 Cicero 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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 Cicero 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 Cicero Volunteer Fire Department Inc?
- Cicero Volunteer Fire Department Inc (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $620 to it, the largest being THE PFIZER FOUNDATION INC ($550). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cicero Volunteer Fire Department Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $620 in grants to Cicero Volunteer Fire Department Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cicero Volunteer Fire Department Inc?
- THE PFIZER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cicero Volunteer Fire Department Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 2 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