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LOS BANOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT

LOS BANOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,178 to it, the largest being LOS BANOS ELKS LODGE NO 2510 ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2022
$9k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$4k
Net assets
$50k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Los Banos Volunteer Fire Department does

Mission

Los Banos Volunteer Fire Department is formed as a nonpprofit association for the benefit of the citizens of the city of los banos california.

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Los Banos Volunteer Fire Department is a non-profit association for the purpose of protecting life and property for the citizens of the city of los banos, california.the association has special programs to educate the community in fire prevention, fire safety, community awareness and home safety.the volunteers participate in community events, cooking for fundraising events, assisting organization with feeding the needy, assisiting with fundraisers for the local kops for kids programs.the volunteer fire department also provides scholarships to high shcool students planning to enter a career in public safety and the fire service.

    $19,389 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $19,389.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($81k) Expenses 100 ($71k) Net assets 100 ($44k)2018 Revenue 52 ($42k) Expenses 63 ($45k) Net assets 94 ($41k)2019 Revenue 51 ($41k) Expenses 57 ($41k) Net assets 95 ($41k)2020 Revenue 43 ($35k) Expenses 25 ($18k) Net assets 134 ($58k)2021 Revenue 36 ($30k) Expenses 39 ($28k) Net assets 138 ($60k)2022 Revenue 11 ($9k) Expenses 27 ($19k) Net assets 115 ($50k)
201720182019202020212022
Revenue (11)Expenses (27)Net assets (115)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $41k to $58k (+41%).

$44k
$41k
$41k
$58k
$60k
$50k
201720182019202020212022
Total assets

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

29% of LOS BANOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,797 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’17
−$3k
’18
$405
’19
$17k
’20
$2k
’21
−$10k
’22
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $29 → $68.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'25*
total
funders
1
2
1
1
1

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 LOS BANOS 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

LOS BANOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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

64% 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 LOS BANOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT.

60%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 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

100% of LOS BANOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $178 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LOS BANOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−112% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−35% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,133 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2022

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds LOS BANOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
LOS BANOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,178 to it, the largest being LOS BANOS ELKS LODGE NO 2510 ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LOS BANOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $4,178 in grants to LOS BANOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LOS BANOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
LOS BANOS ELKS LODGE NO 2510 is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LOS BANOS 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), 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