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GLADYS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT

GLADYS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,820 to it, the largest being THE ADLER FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$151k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$21k
Net assets
$806k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Gladys Volunteer Fire Department does

Mission

Provide fire suppression and emergency aid services to the general public.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization provided fire suppression and emergency assistance to the public in the community of gladys, va, and surrounding campbell county, va area.

    $157,565 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $157,565.

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 ($84k) Expenses 100 ($115k) Net assets 100 ($769k)2019 Revenue 89 ($75k) Expenses 127 ($146k) Net assets 84 ($644k)2020 Revenue 144 ($121k) Expenses 104 ($119k) Net assets 84 ($646k)2021 Revenue 122 ($102k) Expenses 106 ($122k) Net assets 81 ($626k)2022 Revenue 218 ($183k) Expenses 110 ($127k) Net assets 89 ($683k)2023 Revenue 192 ($161k) Expenses 153 ($175k) Net assets 87 ($669k)2024 Revenue 290 ($244k) Expenses 137 ($158k) Net assets 98 ($755k)2025 Revenue 179 ($151k) Expenses 86 ($99k) Net assets 105 ($806k)
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Revenue (179)Expenses (86)Net assets (105)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 2023 to 2024, from $669k to $755k (+13%).

$769k
$644k
$646k
$626k
$683k
$669k
$755k
$806k
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 27% · 2023 69% · 2024 53% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of GLADYS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$31k
’17
−$71k
’19
$2k
’20
−$20k
’21
$57k
’22
−$14k
’23
$86k
’24
$51k
’25
45
months of
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.

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Joined··+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed··000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $820 → $500.

Funder
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'20
'25*
total
funders
1
1
2

From the IRS filings of GLADYS 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

GLADYS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

48%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 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

100% of GLADYS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

VA

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

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’20
Virginia 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

GLADYS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin34% · above the median
Months of reserve44.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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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

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds GLADYS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
GLADYS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,820 to it, the largest being THE ADLER FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GLADYS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $20,820 in grants to GLADYS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GLADYS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
THE ADLER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GLADYS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 3 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