North Carolina · Nonprofit
Garren Creek Volunteer Fire Dept
Garren Creek Volunteer Fire Dept (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $290,000 to it, the largest being Mantz Foundation ($280,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $791k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $290k
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Garren Creek Volunteer Fire Dept does
Mission
To sponsor and promote united action by the residents of the Garren Creek Fire District for the protection and preservation of lives and property against injury and destruction by fire or other casualty.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Garren Creek Volunteer Fire Department continues to update and improve our personal protective equipment, turnout gear, and vehicles.
$373,044 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $373,044.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $2.2M (+29%).
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 98% · 2018 98% · 2019 94% · 2020 93% · 2021 84% · 2022 89% · 2023 81% · 2024 91% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of Garren Creek Volunteer Fire Dept’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $20k → $25k.
From the IRS filings of Garren Creek Volunteer Fire Dept’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
Garren Creek Volunteer Fire Dept leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
Garren Creek Volunteer Fire Dept draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.
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.
Against its field
Garren Creek Volunteer Fire Dept 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 Garren Creek Volunteer Fire Dept receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $155k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$155k
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 Garren Creek Volunteer Fire Dept
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Garren Creek Volunteer Fire Dept: 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 Garren Creek Volunteer Fire Dept?
- Garren Creek Volunteer Fire Dept (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $290,000 to it, the largest being Mantz Foundation ($280,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Garren Creek Volunteer Fire Dept have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $290,000 in grants to Garren Creek Volunteer Fire Dept, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Garren Creek Volunteer Fire Dept?
- Mantz Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $280,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Garren Creek Volunteer Fire Dept 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 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