Texas · Nonprofit
GORDON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
GORDON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,883 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA LEE UPHAM AND CHESTER R UPHAM JR FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $64k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $496k
What Gordon Volunteer Fire Department does
Mission
Extinguish fires and provide fire prevention training and emergency assistance for citizens of gordon, tx, and surrounding areas
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Extinguish fires and provide fire prevention training and emergency assistance for citizens of gordon, tx, and surrounding areas
$86,449 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $86,449.
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 2017 to 2018, from $542k to $648k (+20%).
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 89% · 2018 48% · 2019 87% · 2020 90% · 2021 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of GORDON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 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 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $383 → $3k.
From the IRS filings of GORDON 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
GORDON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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% · 2022 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 GORDON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT's grant income comes from Texas 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.
Against its field
GORDON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT has grown faster than half of the 3,133 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,133 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like GORDON 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GORDON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- GORDON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,883 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA LEE UPHAM AND CHESTER R UPHAM JR FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GORDON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,883 in grants to GORDON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT.
- Who is the largest funder of GORDON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- VIRGINIA LEE UPHAM AND CHESTER R UPHAM JR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GORDON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), 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