California · Nonprofit
Kirkwood Volunteer Fire Department
Kirkwood Volunteer Fire Department (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $371,766 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($95,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $96k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $372k
- Net assets
- $338k
What Kirkwood Volunteer Fire Department does
Mission
promote activities and improvements that will benefit the community both environmentally and recreationally.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Kirkwood Volunteer Fire Department (KVFD) provides fire safety and protection services to 400 residential and commercial structures in the community and nearby areas. Support is provided by raising awareness in the community and soliciting donations for new equipment related to safety and fire prevention measures.
$40,400 spentof which $40,400 as grants100% of program spendingThe KVFD seeks contributions that help make the medical services provided by the Kirkwood Volunteer Fire Department possible, including raising funds that areused for training volunteers (in CPR and other specialized classes), and for EMS equipment and supplies that are not provided for in the County EMS program.
The KMPUD offers recreation services that include a children's playgroundand tennis courts, and with a planned hiking trail, has a responsibility to promote environmental awareness. Recent programs include a recycling initiative and educating residents and businesses on water conservation efforts. A future hiking trail built by volunteers in an environmentally sensitive meadow will protect wetlands and drainage areas, and educate users with signage offering facts about native wildlife and plants.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $40,400.
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 2023 to 2024, from $691k to $288k (−58%).
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.
38% of Kirkwood Volunteer Fire Department’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $500 → $42k.
9 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 Kirkwood 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
Kirkwood Volunteer Fire Department has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
84% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Kirkwood Volunteer Fire Department.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 2020 51% · 2021 33% · 2022 35% · 2023 35% — 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
56% of Kirkwood Volunteer Fire Department's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
84% of Kirkwood Volunteer Fire Department's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $60k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $311k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Kirkwood Volunteer Fire Department runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Kirkwood 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 Kirkwood 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 Kirkwood Volunteer Fire Department?
- Kirkwood Volunteer Fire Department (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $371,766 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($95,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Kirkwood Volunteer Fire Department have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $371,766 in grants to Kirkwood Volunteer Fire Department, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Kirkwood Volunteer Fire Department?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $95,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Kirkwood Volunteer Fire Department find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 12 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