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EMERALD MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC

EMERALD MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Alabama) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being MID-SOUTH RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ($17,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$127k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$18k
Net assets
$337k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Emerald Mountain Volunteer Fire Department Inc does

Mission

Volunteer Fire Department

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. We provide fire and first responder service to 1500 families in rural Alabama. We had 337 runs in 2025

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($116k) Expenses 100 ($189k) Net assets 100 ($400k)2022 Revenue 95 ($110k) Expenses 23 ($44k) Net assets 117 ($466k)2023 Revenue 90 ($104k) Expenses 81 ($154k) Net assets 104 ($417k)2024 Revenue 94 ($109k) Expenses 91 ($173k) Net assets 88 ($353k)2025 Revenue 110 ($127k) Expenses 76 ($143k) Net assets 84 ($337k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (110)Expenses (76)Net assets (84)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $400k to $466k (+17%).

$400k
$466k
$417k
$353k
$337k
20212022202320242025
Total assets

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

51% of EMERALD MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$73k
’21
$67k
’22
−$49k
’23
−$64k
’24
−$16k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'25*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of EMERALD MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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

EMERALD MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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

97% 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 EMERALD MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.

97%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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 EMERALD MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

AL

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

EMERALD MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $18k to it.

Operating margin−12% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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In Alabama

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05Profile & governance

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

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 EMERALD MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
EMERALD MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Alabama) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being MID-SOUTH RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ($17,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EMERALD MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $17,500 in grants to EMERALD MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.
Who is the largest funder of EMERALD MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
MID-SOUTH RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $17,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EMERALD MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2021–2025), 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