Virginia · Nonprofit
JAMES CITY BRUTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
JAMES CITY BRUTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,831 to it, the largest being THE JAMES MALONEY FOUNDATION ($57,327). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $255k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $73k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What James City Bruton Volunteer Fire Department does
Mission
VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTOrganized on February 1, 1948 by residents of James City to provide fireprotection and emergency help for everyone, without obligations or charges.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The primary mission of the JCBVFD is to provide emergency fire and EMS response to the residents and visitors of the area. The volunteers of the James City Bruton Volunteer Fire Department respond to a wide variety of emergency incidents including fires, vehicle accidents, technical rescues, maritime emergencies, HAZMAT incidents and emergency medical events. Typically, these incidents total nearly 1500 annually.
$160,373 spent$255,042 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $160,373.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.2M to $2.0M (−8%).
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.
100% of JAMES CITY BRUTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $500 → $5k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of JAMES CITY BRUTON 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
JAMES CITY BRUTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 98% · 2022 53% · 2023 60% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
50% of JAMES CITY BRUTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
85% of JAMES CITY BRUTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
JAMES CITY BRUTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT runs a healthier operating margin than half 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
Organizations like JAMES CITY BRUTON 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% 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 JAMES CITY BRUTON 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 JAMES CITY BRUTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- JAMES CITY BRUTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,831 to it, the largest being THE JAMES MALONEY FOUNDATION ($57,327). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JAMES CITY BRUTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $72,831 in grants to JAMES CITY BRUTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JAMES CITY BRUTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- THE JAMES MALONEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $57,327 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAMES CITY BRUTON 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 8 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