Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Ligonier Township VFD #1
Ligonier Township VFD #1 (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,017 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Ligonier Township VFD #1 runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,719 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,719 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Nashared funders
- Nextdoor Foundationportfolio match
- The Leary Firefighters Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 13% · 2018 10% · 2019 12% · 2020 18% · 2021 13% · 2022 8% · 2023 19% · 2024 5% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of Ligonier Township VFD #1’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $17.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $312k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ligonier Valley Fire Companies). These are real filings, and they are not money Ligonier Township VFD #1 raised.
From the IRS filings of Ligonier Township VFD #1’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Ligonier Township VFD #1 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
71% of Ligonier Township VFD #1's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Nashared fundersPA · backs 78 organizations that share your funders
- Nextdoor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leary Firefighters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Benter Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
- Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pee Dee Electric Membership Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fm Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deerfield Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jt-Minnie Maude Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Garver David B for Charity - Char Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scott Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Ligonier Township VFD #1
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Ligonier Township VFD #1: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Ligonier Township VFD #1?
- Ligonier Township VFD #1 (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,017 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ligonier Township VFD #1 have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $17,017 in grants to Ligonier Township VFD #1, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ligonier Township VFD #1?
- RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ligonier Township VFD #1 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.
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 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing