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FAIRFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT

FAIRFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being ELIS OLSSON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$58k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$5k
Net assets
$100k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Fairfield Volunteer Fire Department does

Mission

To assemble its members together for its mutual benefits, and to operate fire trucks and other fire equipment for the protection of all kinds of property located in hyde county and its surrounding areas. To have functions that will assist in securing fire-fighting equipment and receive donations for same, and to keep the equipment in good shape and to have ample supplies on hand at all times.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. This organization provides voluntary fire department services to rural hyde county, nc.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($97k) Expenses 100 ($36k) Net assets 100 ($89k)2023 Revenue 56 ($54k) Expenses 156 ($56k) Net assets 99 ($88k)2024 Revenue 59 ($58k) Expenses 128 ($46k) Net assets 112 ($100k)
202220232024
Revenue (59)Expenses (128)Net assets (112)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 2023 to 2024, from $88k to $100k (+14%).

$89k
$88k
$100k
202220232024
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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of FAIRFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,797 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$62k
’22
−$1k
’23
$12k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'22
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of FAIRFIELD 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.

Where its funders are

FAIRFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.

VA

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

FAIRFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,076 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−23% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,076 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like FAIRFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT

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In North Carolina

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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 FAIRFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
FAIRFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being ELIS OLSSON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FAIRFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to FAIRFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Who is the largest funder of FAIRFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
ELIS OLSSON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FAIRFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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.

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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 2022–2024), 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