Delaware · Nonprofit
MARYDEL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF MARYDEL DELAWARE INC
MARYDEL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF MARYDEL DELAWARE INC (Delaware) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,600 to it, the largest being TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $18k
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Marydel Volunteer Fire Company of Marydel Delaware Inc does
Mission
The primary purpose is to preserve and protect lives and property in the marydel, delaware community, and other communities as requested, through the provision of firefighting, rescue, and emergency medical services ("ems").
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Providing fire protection, rescue, and emergency medical services to the marydel, delaware communitity and surrounding communities.
$1,067,966 spent$270,341 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,067,966.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $2.2M to $2.9M (+35%).
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: 2019 83% · 2020 87% · 2021 80% · 2022 74% · 2023 79% · 2024 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of MARYDEL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF MARYDEL DELAWARE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (69% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Bily Lepore
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $8k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 MARYDEL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF MARYDEL DELAWARE INC’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
MARYDEL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF MARYDEL DELAWARE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% 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
100% 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 MARYDEL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF MARYDEL DELAWARE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 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
57% of MARYDEL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF MARYDEL DELAWARE INC'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 $8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Delaware, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Against its field
MARYDEL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF MARYDEL DELAWARE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding MARYDEL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF MARYDEL DELAWARE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $365k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$203k
- Department of Homeland Security$162k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MARYDEL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF MARYDEL DELAWARE INC
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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 MARYDEL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF MARYDEL DELAWARE INC: 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 MARYDEL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF MARYDEL DELAWARE INC?
- MARYDEL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF MARYDEL DELAWARE INC (Delaware) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,600 to it, the largest being TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MARYDEL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF MARYDEL DELAWARE INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $17,600 in grants to MARYDEL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF MARYDEL DELAWARE INC.
- Who is the largest funder of MARYDEL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF MARYDEL DELAWARE INC?
- TULSA COMMUNITY 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 MARYDEL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF MARYDEL DELAWARE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 2 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