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GASTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT

GASTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being Westminster Village Muncie Inc ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$407k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$30k
Net assets
$254k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Gaston Volunteer Fire Department does

Mission

Ensure public safety by responding to fires, providing emergency medical services, and mitigating other hazards disrupting community safety.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Ensure public safety

    $225,464 spent$224,459 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $225,464.

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 ($135k) Expenses 100 ($75k) Net assets 100 ($96k)2018 Revenue 42 ($57k) Expenses 57 ($43k) Net assets 165 ($158k)2024 Revenue 301 ($407k) Expenses 516 ($387k) Net assets 266 ($254k)
201720182024
Revenue (301)Expenses (516)Net assets (266)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $187k to $158k (−15%).

$187k
$158k
$474k
201720182024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of GASTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,485 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$60k
’17
$15k
’18
$19k
’24
3.0
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $15k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of GASTON 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.

Where its funders are

100% of GASTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

IN

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

’17
’19
Indiana out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GASTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · below the median
Months of reserve3.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like GASTON 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 Indiana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GASTON 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 GASTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
GASTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being Westminster Village Muncie Inc ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GASTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $30,000 in grants to GASTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GASTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
Westminster Village Muncie Inc is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GASTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 1 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