North Carolina · Nonprofit
GARYSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
GARYSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,201 to it, the largest being EAST CAROLINA HEALTH ($8,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $474k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $539k
What Garysburg Volunteer Fire Department does
Mission
The mission of the Garysburg Volunteer Fire Department is to provide free fire and rescue services the the citizens of garysburg north carolina and surrounding communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide fire protection services during the year for the town of garysburg north carolina and surrounding communities.
$183,963 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $183,963.
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 2020 to 2021, from $325k to $668k (+105%).
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: 2021 73% · 2022 77% · 2023 88% · 2024 81% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Hamilton Darden
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $510 → $9k.
From the IRS filings of GARYSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’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
GARYSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 GARYSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 61% · 2021 100% · 2022 85% · 2023 99% — 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
85% of GARYSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT's grant income comes from North Carolina 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.
Organizations like GARYSBURG VOLUNTEER 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
23%
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 GARYSBURG VOLUNTEER 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 GARYSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- GARYSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,201 to it, the largest being EAST CAROLINA HEALTH ($8,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GARYSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $10,201 in grants to GARYSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GARYSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- EAST CAROLINA HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $8,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GARYSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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 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