Maryland · Nonprofit
GALENA VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
GALENA VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,900 to it, the largest being DAVID A BRAMBLE FOUNDATION INC ($9,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $558k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Galena Volunteer Fire Company Inc does
Mission
To serve and protect
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Volunteer fire company which provided emergency rescue and safety services to communities in and around kent county, maryland.
$18,437 spent3% of program spendingVolunteer fire company which provided emergency rescue and safety services to communities in and around kent county, maryland. During 2023, the company responded to 226 fire calls and 296 ems calls.
$533,730 spent97% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $552,167.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.9M to $2.3M (+24%).
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 58% · 2018 58% · 2019 58% · 2020 58% · 2021 53% · 2022 55% · 2023 54% · 2024 68% · 2025 41%. 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
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $2k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of GALENA VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 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
GALENA VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 67% · 2019 66% · 2020 67% · 2021 73% · 2022 80% · 2023 80% — growing more concentrated.
“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 GALENA VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Government funding GALENA VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $415k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$228k
- Department of Agriculture$187k
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 GALENA VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GALENA VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 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 GALENA VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC?
- GALENA VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,900 to it, the largest being DAVID A BRAMBLE FOUNDATION INC ($9,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GALENA VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $12,900 in grants to GALENA VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GALENA VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC?
- DAVID A BRAMBLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GALENA VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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