Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Lake Shore Fire Department
Lake Shore Fire Department (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,481 to it, the largest being ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($25,231). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $361k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $37k
- Net assets
- $970k
What Lake Shore Fire Department does
Mission
Lake Shore Fire Dept. is an all-volunteer fire department that was established over 70 years ago to provide emergency services to the area residents and businesses. We operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year to provide the best in Fire, Medical, and Rescue services to our district and to surrounding departments as requested. The department has an active roster of about 25 members and several associate members. Lake Shore Fire Dept. is dispatched for approximately 850 emergency incidents a year.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Lake Shore Fire Dept. is an all-volunteer fire department that was established over 70 years ago to provide emergency services to the area residents and businesses. We operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year to provide the best in Fire, Medical, and Rescue services to our district and to surrounding departments as requested. The department has an active roster of about 25 members and several associate members. Lake Shore Fire Dept. is dispatched for approximately 850 emergency incidents a year.
$454,705 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $454,705.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.3M to $1.7M (+33%).
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 26% · 2018 34% · 2019 37% · 2020 47% · 2021 37% · 2022 42% · 2023 68% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of Lake Shore Fire Department’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
2020 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $6k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 Lake Shore 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
Lake Shore Fire Department leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
95% 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 Lake Shore Fire Department.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 79% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
95% of Lake Shore 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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k 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
Lake Shore Fire Department receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $37k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Lake Shore 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Lake Shore 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 Lake Shore Fire Department?
- Lake Shore Fire Department (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,481 to it, the largest being ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($25,231). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Lake Shore Fire Department have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $37,481 in grants to Lake Shore Fire Department, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lake Shore Fire Department?
- ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,231 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lake Shore Fire Department find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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