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DEERFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC

DEERFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $650 to it, the largest being ALLIANT ENERGY FOUNDATION INC ($400). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$50k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$650
Net assets
$45k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Deerfield Volunteer Fire Department Inc does

Mission

Volunteer fire department

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Grants

    $49,507 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $49,507.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($39k) Expenses 100 ($27k) Net assets 100 ($83k)2018 Revenue 78 ($31k) Expenses 56 ($15k) Net assets 119 ($99k)2019 Revenue 88 ($34k) Expenses 83 ($22k) Net assets 133 ($111k)2020 Revenue 6 ($2k) Expenses 72 ($19k) Net assets 113 ($94k)2021 Revenue 73 ($29k) Expenses 101 ($27k) Net assets 115 ($96k)2023 Revenue 140 ($55k) Expenses 149 ($40k) Net assets 131 ($109k)2024 Revenue 78 ($30k) Expenses 35 ($9k) Net assets 156 ($130k)2025 Revenue 129 ($50k) Expenses 506 ($135k) Net assets 54 ($45k)
'17'18'19'20'21'23'24'25
Revenue (129)Expenses (506)Net assets (54)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 2024 to 2025, from $130k to $45k (−65%).

$83k
$99k
$111k
$94k
$96k
$109k
$130k
$45k
'17'18'19'20'21'23'24'25
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of DEERFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,797 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$12k
’17
$16k
’18
$12k
’19
−$17k
’20
$2k
’21
$15k
’23
$21k
’24
−$85k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
2

From the IRS filings of DEERFIELD 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

DEERFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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

62%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

62% of DEERFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

MN
WI

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DEERFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC has grown faster than half of the 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−168% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like DEERFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC

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In Wisconsin

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds DEERFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
DEERFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $650 to it, the largest being ALLIANT ENERGY FOUNDATION INC ($400). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DEERFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $650 in grants to DEERFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.
Who is the largest funder of DEERFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
ALLIANT ENERGY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DEERFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 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