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CORDRY-SWEETWATER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT

CORDRY-SWEETWATER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,992 to it, the largest being BROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($49,992). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$268k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$51k
Net assets
$379k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Cordry-Sweetwater Volunteer Fire Department does

Mission

Provide fire protection and ambulance service for the cordry - sweetwater conservancy district.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Medical and fire equipment and building addition

    $202,215 spent$135,803 earned by the program
    99% of program spending
  2. Training and providing fire protection and ambulance services to the public

    $2,736 spent$22,000 earned by the program
    1% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $204,951.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($190k) Expenses 100 ($227k) Net assets 100 ($407k)2020 Revenue 118 ($224k) Expenses 95 ($216k) Net assets 102 ($415k)2021 Revenue 112 ($213k) Expenses 87 ($198k) Net assets 106 ($430k)2022 Revenue 118 ($225k) Expenses 78 ($178k) Net assets 117 ($477k)2023 Revenue 131 ($250k) Expenses 118 ($269k) Net assets 113 ($458k)2024 Revenue 117 ($222k) Expenses 120 ($274k) Net assets 100 ($406k)2025 Revenue 141 ($268k) Expenses 130 ($295k) Net assets 93 ($379k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (141)Expenses (130)Net assets (93)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 2023 to 2024, from $458k to $406k (−11%).

$407k
$415k
$430k
$477k
$458k
$406k
$379k
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

32% of CORDRY-SWEETWATER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,485 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$37k
’19
$8k
’20
$15k
’21
$47k
’22
−$19k
’23
−$51k
’24
−$27k
’25
4.8
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.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed4444444
Joined·+2+0+1+1+0+0
No longer listed·201100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $239 → $205.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CORDRY-SWEETWATER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’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

CORDRY-SWEETWATER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CORDRY-SWEETWATER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT.

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 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

100% of CORDRY-SWEETWATER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CORDRY-SWEETWATER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT's revenue grew 41% between 2019 and 2025.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 31%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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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Questions and answers

Who funds CORDRY-SWEETWATER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
CORDRY-SWEETWATER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,992 to it, the largest being BROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($49,992). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CORDRY-SWEETWATER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $50,992 in grants to CORDRY-SWEETWATER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CORDRY-SWEETWATER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
BROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $49,992 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CORDRY-SWEETWATER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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.

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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 2019–2025), 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