North Carolina · Nonprofit
ERWIN FIRE DEPARTMENT & RESCUE SQUAD INC
ERWIN FIRE DEPARTMENT & RESCUE SQUAD INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being FLAT BRANCH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $993k
What Erwin Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc does
Mission
To provide the best possible fire fighting and rescue services to the citizens of erwin, north carolina.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Firefighting and rescue services provided to the residents of the town of erwin and the surrounding township located in harnett county north carolina.
$1,256,991 spent$1,444,867 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,256,991.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.7M to $2.1M (+21%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of ERWIN FIRE DEPARTMENT & RESCUE SQUAD INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (69% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Daniel Gurkin
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Against its field
ERWIN FIRE DEPARTMENT & RESCUE SQUAD INC is better cushioned than half of the 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ERWIN FIRE DEPARTMENT & RESCUE SQUAD INC
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ERWIN FIRE DEPARTMENT & RESCUE SQUAD INC: 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 ERWIN FIRE DEPARTMENT & RESCUE SQUAD INC?
- ERWIN FIRE DEPARTMENT & RESCUE SQUAD INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being FLAT BRANCH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ERWIN FIRE DEPARTMENT & RESCUE SQUAD INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to ERWIN FIRE DEPARTMENT & RESCUE SQUAD INC.
- Who is the largest funder of ERWIN FIRE DEPARTMENT & RESCUE SQUAD INC?
- FLAT BRANCH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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 ERWIN FIRE DEPARTMENT & RESCUE SQUAD INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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