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FIREFLY TRAIL INC

FIREFLY TRAIL INC (Georgia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $619,381 to it, the largest being RIVERVIEW FOUNDATION INC ($445,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$78k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$619k
Net assets
$170k
7/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 89%
01What it does

What Firefly Trail Inc does

Mission

To create and maintain a 39 mile rail-trail in northeast georgia from athens to union point.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Bike ride - promotion of 39 mile rail trail bicycle trail

    $53,186 spentof which $500 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $53,186.

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 ($101k) Expenses 100 ($15k) Net assets 100 ($100k)2018 Revenue 113 ($114k) Expenses 109 ($17k) Net assets 198 ($198k)2019 Revenue 182 ($185k) Expenses 551 ($85k) Net assets 297 ($297k)2020 Revenue 116 ($118k) Expenses 787 ($122k) Net assets 293 ($293k)2021 Revenue 51 ($52k) Expenses 305 ($47k) Net assets 298 ($298k)2022 Revenue 126 ($127k) Expenses 386 ($60k) Net assets 366 ($366k)2023 Revenue 59 ($60k) Expenses 1811 ($280k) Net assets 146 ($146k)2024 Revenue 77 ($78k) Expenses 344 ($53k) Net assets 171 ($170k)
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Revenue (77)Expenses (344)Net assets (171)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $366k to $146k (−60%).

$100k
$198k
$297k
$293k
$298k
$366k
$146k
$170k
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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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

90% of FIREFLY TRAIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,075 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$86k
’17
$98k
’18
$100k
’19
−$4k
’20
$5k
’21
$68k
’22
−$220k
’23
$25k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $90k → $15k.

1 of 10 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 FIREFLY TRAIL 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

FIREFLY TRAIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

72%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 88% · 2022 93% · 2023 65% — 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of FIREFLY TRAIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

FIREFLY TRAIL INC draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 5 states in all.

NY
MO
TN
NC
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FIREFLY TRAIL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin32% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like FIREFLY TRAIL 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 Georgia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

58%

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 FIREFLY TRAIL 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 FIREFLY TRAIL INC?
FIREFLY TRAIL INC (Georgia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $619,381 to it, the largest being RIVERVIEW FOUNDATION INC ($445,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FIREFLY TRAIL INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $619,381 in grants to FIREFLY TRAIL INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FIREFLY TRAIL INC?
RIVERVIEW FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $445,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FIREFLY TRAIL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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