North Carolina · Nonprofit
COTTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
COTTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $14,020 to it, the largest being GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ($14,020). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Cotton Volunteer Fire Department Inc does
Mission
The department's main objective is the protection of life and property through fire fighting and fire prevention.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Cotton volunteer fire department provides fire suppression and protection activities to its fire district. Services are provided to all ages and needs without discrimination. No direct fees are charged for services provided to residents and businesses.
$1,471,046 spent$1,517,673 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,471,046.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $2.9M to $2.6M (−10%).
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.
0% of COTTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (69% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of COTTON 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
COTTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.
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
COTTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC is better cushioned than half of the 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COTTON 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 COTTON 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 COTTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- COTTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $14,020 to it, the largest being GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ($14,020). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COTTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $14,020 in grants to COTTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.
- Who is the largest funder of COTTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- GARY SINISE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $14,020 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COTTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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 2018–2025), 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