Vermont · Nonprofit
Ferrisburgh Volunteer Fire Dept Inc
Ferrisburgh Volunteer Fire Dept Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,023 to it, the largest being VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $469k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $619k
What Ferrisburgh Volunteer Fire Dept Inc does
Mission
Public Service Fire Department
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Volunteer fire department serving the Town of Ferrisburgh and surrounding area. Actively engaged in firefighting, rescue and disaster assistance.
$218,630 spent$219,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $218,630.
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 2024 to 2025, from $373k to $619k (+66%).
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: 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Ferrisburgh Volunteer Fire Dept Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $11.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Ferrisburgh Volunteer Fire Dept 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
Ferrisburgh Volunteer Fire Dept Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
100% 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 Ferrisburgh Volunteer Fire Dept Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
100% of Ferrisburgh Volunteer Fire Dept Inc's grant income comes from Vermont funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
Ferrisburgh Volunteer Fire Dept Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Ferrisburgh Volunteer Fire Dept Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12k on record.
- Other Grants$12k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Ferrisburgh Volunteer Fire Dept 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Ferrisburgh Volunteer Fire Dept 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 Ferrisburgh Volunteer Fire Dept Inc?
- Ferrisburgh Volunteer Fire Dept Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,023 to it, the largest being VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ferrisburgh Volunteer Fire Dept Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,023 in grants to Ferrisburgh Volunteer Fire Dept Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ferrisburgh Volunteer Fire Dept Inc?
- VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ferrisburgh Volunteer Fire Dept Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 2017–2025), 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