Delaware · Nonprofit
DVFA FOUNDATION
DVFA FOUNDATION (Delaware) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,768 to it, the largest being DELAWARE VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION ($75,768). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $98k
- Net assets
- $79k
What Dvfa Foundation does
Mission
To promote safety and fund research for volunteer firefighters and provide scholarships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To provide scholarships to volunteer firefighters and provide donations in support of volunteer firefighter safety and research
$43,000 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $43,000.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $62k to $72k (+16%).
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.
96% of DVFA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Lynn J Rogers
Chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $24k → $11k.
From the IRS filings of DVFA FOUNDATION’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
DVFA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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
77% 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 DVFA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 72% · 2021 100% · 2022 73% · 2023 55% — diversifying over time.
“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 DVFA FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
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
DVFA FOUNDATION's revenue fell 54% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like DVFA FOUNDATION
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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DVFA FOUNDATION: 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 DVFA FOUNDATION?
- DVFA FOUNDATION (Delaware) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,768 to it, the largest being DELAWARE VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION ($75,768). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DVFA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $97,768 in grants to DVFA FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DVFA FOUNDATION?
- DELAWARE VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,768 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DVFA FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 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