Florida · Nonprofit
FOUR COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT
FOUR COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,140 to it, the largest being GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ($32,973). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $56k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $48k
- Net assets
- $142k
What Four Communities Fire Department does
Mission
Our mission is primarily to provide Firefighting, Hazard Mitigation and Emergency Medical Response to the citizens of and visitors to our community. We also provide training to our volunteer firefighter, fire prevention and public education programs, and support safety outreach through youth programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fire operations- Respond to approximately 220 fire rescue calls, including structure fire, brush fires, emergency medical service calls, Replace or upgrade worn out or damaged equipment, tools and PPE.
$7,331 spent26% of program spendingTraining and Volunteer Recruitment Retention-Conducted weekly volunteer firefighter training on basic and intermediate firefighting and EMS skills. Conducted a blended firefighter-1 volunteer academy for 3 of our volunteers.
$143 spent1% of program spendingFire station and Vehicle maintenance, duel and insurance , including fire station occupancy and supplies and telephone IT expenses required to provide fire rescue services. Performed ongoing fire station maintenance to ensure that out vehicles and equipment are protected, and that the volunteers have a safe and useful place to train and meet.
$20,786 spent74% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $28,260.
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.
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 $519k to $114k (−78%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 30% · 2019 12% · 2020 10% · 2021 19% · 2022 10% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $33k.
1 of 4 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 FOUR COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 funders by total. 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
FOUR COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% 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
69% 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 FOUR COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 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
FOUR COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $167 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.
Government funding FOUR COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $215 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $215
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 FOUR COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUR COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT: 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 FOUR COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- FOUR COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,140 to it, the largest being GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ($32,973). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUR COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $48,140 in grants to FOUR COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUR COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- GARY SINISE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $32,973 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUR COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 4 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