Iowa · Nonprofit
DENISON VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC
DENISON VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,921 to it, the largest being NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS TRAUMA REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ($22,921). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $49k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $300k
What Denison Volunteer Firefighters Association Inc does
Mission
The purpose of this corporation is to protect human life and property by fighting fires in the city of denison, iowa and the vicinity of crawford county, iowa - also to prevent fires, to assist with emergencies and disasters, and to provide to the community, education in fire prevention, first aid and safety practices.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Monthly training meetings which enhance the level of awareness and experience of the volunteers in responding to fires - provide mutual aid for surrounding smaller communities and provide training for those fire depts utilizing the new fire training center facility located in denison, iowa in addition to the firefighter one class provided - annually promote fire prevention week with an open house to educate the community on fire safety - give away smoke detectors, provide newspaper publication inserts on preventing fires and how to be safe if there is a fire, promote awareness in the community with "operation e.d.I.t.h." which means exit drill in the home especially for elementary children and their familiies, local cable channel public service bulletins and programming.
$16,330 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $16,330.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $304k to $270k (−11%).
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.
72% of DENISON VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of DENISON VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION 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
DENISON VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
88% 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 DENISON VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 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
DENISON VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
DENISON VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,076 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,076 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like DENISON VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION 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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DENISON VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC?
- DENISON VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,921 to it, the largest being NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS TRAUMA REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ($22,921). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DENISON VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $25,921 in grants to DENISON VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DENISON VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC?
- NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS TRAUMA REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $22,921 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DENISON VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), 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