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EDINBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT

EDINBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,750 to it, the largest being HG Gillespie Foundation ($5,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.7M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$6k
Net assets
$1.2M
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Edinboro Volunteer Fire Department does

Mission

Fire & ambulance services

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Fire & ambulance services

    $752,354 spent$229,663 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $752,354.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($886k)2019 Revenue 152 ($2.0M) Expenses 133 ($1.6M) Net assets 149 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 101 ($1.4M) Expenses 130 ($1.6M) Net assets 126 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 119 ($1.6M) Expenses 138 ($1.6M) Net assets 141 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 134 ($1.8M) Expenses 155 ($1.9M) Net assets 160 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 126 ($1.7M) Expenses 145 ($1.7M) Net assets 126 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 131 ($1.7M) Expenses 139 ($1.7M) Net assets 132 ($1.2M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (131)Expenses (139)Net assets (132)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 2022 to 2023, from $2.6M to $2.1M (−20%).

$1.8M
$2.2M
$2.2M
$2.5M
$2.6M
$2.1M
$2.0M
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 5% · 2019 3% · 2020 12% · 2021 8% · 2022 13% · 2023 12% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

16% of EDINBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (69% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 852 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$140k
’18
$438k
’19
−$204k
’20
−$54k
’21
−$56k
’22
−$45k
’23
$87k
’24
3.2
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.

Board chair

Christoper Conn

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed10999999
Joined·+3+1+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·410000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $3k.

Funder
'17
'18
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of EDINBORO 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.

How concentrated its funding is

EDINBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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

96%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 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

96% of EDINBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA
TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
Pennsylvania out of state home

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

EDINBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin5% · below the median
Months of reserve3.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

41% of spending goes to programs.

Program 41%Management 10%Fundraising 48%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds EDINBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
EDINBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,750 to it, the largest being HG Gillespie Foundation ($5,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EDINBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,750 in grants to EDINBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EDINBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
HG Gillespie Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EDINBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2018–2024), 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