North Carolina · Nonprofit
HIWASSEE DAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
HIWASSEE DAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $415k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $981k
What Hiwassee Dam Volunteer Fire Department does
Mission
Volunteer fire department
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Hiwassee Dam Volunteer Fire Department (HDVFD) is a rural, all-volunteer department located in northwestern Cherokee County, North Carolina that provides fire protection, first-aid medical response, and rescue services within a 88 square mile district.
$435,223 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $435,223.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.9M (+74%).
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: 2018 94% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 85% · 2023 98% · 2024 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of HIWASSEE DAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Michael S Starks
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Against its field
HIWASSEE DAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT has grown faster than half of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HIWASSEE DAM 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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HIWASSEE DAM 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 HIWASSEE DAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- HIWASSEE DAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIWASSEE DAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to HIWASSEE DAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT.
- Who is the largest funder of HIWASSEE DAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIWASSEE DAM 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), 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