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EIGHTH WARD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC

EIGHTH WARD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$970k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$0
Net assets
$961k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Eighth Ward Volunteer Fire Department Inc does

Mission

Fire fighting and emergency response

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide fire protection and emergency medical response services to the rural community comprising the 8th ward of tangipahoa parish louisiana.

    $939,332 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $939,332.

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 ($576k) Expenses 100 ($590k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 99 ($569k) Expenses 97 ($575k) Net assets 99 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 104 ($597k) Expenses 96 ($566k) Net assets 98 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 100 ($574k) Expenses 84 ($497k) Net assets 105 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 113 ($650k) Expenses 120 ($708k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 120 ($692k) Expenses 129 ($763k) Net assets 94 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 114 ($659k) Expenses 142 ($836k) Net assets 77 ($871k)2024 Revenue 168 ($970k) Expenses 159 ($938k) Net assets 85 ($961k)
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Revenue (168)Expenses (159)Net assets (85)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 $1.1M to $899k (−18%).

$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.1M
$899k
$989k
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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
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

28% of EIGHTH WARD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$14k
’17
−$6k
’18
$31k
’19
$77k
’20
−$59k
’21
−$72k
’22
−$177k
’23
$31k
’24
3.6
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.

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Listed55554444
Joined·+0+3+1+3+2+3+1
No longer listed·0314231
03Who funds it
04Its place in the field

Against its field

EIGHTH WARD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC has grown faster than half of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve3.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
20%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds EIGHTH WARD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
EIGHTH WARD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EIGHTH WARD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to EIGHTH WARD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.
Who is the largest funder of EIGHTH WARD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EIGHTH WARD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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