Virginia · Nonprofit
MATHEWS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
MATHEWS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $270,901 to it, the largest being J EDWIN TREAKLE FOUNDATION INC ($218,666). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $820k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $271k
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Mathews Volunteer Fire Dept Inc does
Mission
To prevent fires, extinguish fires, respond to motor vehicle crashes, and extricate and/or render first aid to victims, etc.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Expenses incurred in connection with preventing fires, extinguishing fires, responding to motor vehicle crashes, and extricating and/or rendering first aid to victims.
$481,782 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $481,782.
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.
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 $2.7M to $3.4M (+28%).
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 58% · 2018 57% · 2019 40% · 2020 59% · 2021 62% · 2022 60% · 2023 67% · 2024 56% · 2025 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
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 3 funders, grant income fell $28k → $25k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 MATHEWS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT 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
MATHEWS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% 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: 2017 100% · 2018 83% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 62% · 2022 73% · 2023 72% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of MATHEWS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k 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.
Government funding MATHEWS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $194k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$175k
- Department of Homeland Security$19k
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 MATHEWS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 MATHEWS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT 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 MATHEWS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC?
- MATHEWS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $270,901 to it, the largest being J EDWIN TREAKLE FOUNDATION INC ($218,666). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MATHEWS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $270,901 in grants to MATHEWS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MATHEWS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC?
- J EDWIN TREAKLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $218,666 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MATHEWS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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