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DOVE CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT

DOVE CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $34,004 to it, the largest being SAN ANGELO AREA FOUNDATION ($34,004). 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
$261k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$34k
Net assets
$354k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Dove Creek Volunteer Fire Department does

Mission

See schedule o.the Dove Creek Volunteer Fire Department is an organization made up of volunteer, uncompensated members, who offer fire protection to their area of responsibility when the need for such protection arises, without charge to those served. This area of responsibility includes approximately sixty-five square miles of southwestern tom green county texas. It stretches from the city limits of san angelo, texas, west on fm 853 to the tom green county line, then southward until it parallels fm 2335, then eastward five miles from hwy 277, northward to the south pool of twin buttes reservoir, and westward to fm 853. The department serves a rural area that is otherwise without fire protection. In addition to safeguarding against loss of life and property through fire protection, the department also trains firefighters and educates the public about the prevention of fires.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Dove Creek Volunteer Fire Department is an organization made up of volunteer, uncompensated members, who offer fire protection to their area of responsibility when the need for such protection arises, without charge to those served. The department serves a rural area that is otherwise without fire protection. In addition to safeguarding against loss of life and property through fire protection, the department also trains firefighters and educates the public about the prevention of fires.

    $116,713 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $116,713.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($79k) Expenses 100 ($36k) Net assets 100 ($123k)2023 Revenue 291 ($230k) Expenses 236 ($85k) Net assets 219 ($268k)2024 Revenue 80 ($63k) Expenses 323 ($116k) Net assets 180 ($221k)2025 Revenue 330 ($261k) Expenses 357 ($128k) Net assets 289 ($354k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (330)Expenses (357)Net assets (289)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 $240k to $404k (+68%).

$123k
$268k
$240k
$404k
2022202320242025
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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 45% · 2024 15% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of DOVE CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$43k
’22
$145k
’23
−$53k
’24
$133k
’25
8.0
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.

202320242025
Listed445
Joined·+0+3
No longer listed·02
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $28k.

Funder
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1

1 of 1 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 DOVE CREEK 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.

Where its funders are

100% of DOVE CREEK 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. $34k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DOVE CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin51% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)49% · top quartile

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

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds DOVE CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
DOVE CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $34,004 to it, the largest being SAN ANGELO AREA FOUNDATION ($34,004). 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 DOVE CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $34,004 in grants to DOVE CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DOVE CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
SAN ANGELO AREA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $34,004 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DOVE CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2022–2025), 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