Tennessee · Nonprofit
HIGHLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
HIGHLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being TRACTOR SUPPLY COMPANY FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $475k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $500
- Net assets
- $794k
What Highland Volunteer Fire Department does
Mission
Our mission is to provide fire protection, first response and other public safety needs for the unincorporated areas around the city of portland tn.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, the fire dept responded to 76 fire calls, 682 rescue calls, and 540 other related calls
$174,254 spent$32,023 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $174,254.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $258k to $668k (+159%).
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: 2020 76% · 2021 86% · 2022 81% · 2023 97% · 2024 87% · 2025 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of HIGHLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’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. 2 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.
Board chair
Scott Meece
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of HIGHLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 funders by total. 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 HIGHLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
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
HIGHLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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 HIGHLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $190k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$190k
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 HIGHLAND 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HIGHLAND 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 HIGHLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- HIGHLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being TRACTOR SUPPLY COMPANY FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIGHLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $500 in grants to HIGHLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGHLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- TRACTOR SUPPLY COMPANY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGHLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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