North Carolina · Nonprofit
MCDOWELL COUNTY FIRE COMMISSION
MCDOWELL COUNTY FIRE COMMISSION (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($8,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What McDowell County Fire Commission does
Mission
To facilitate the adequate and efficient protection of life and property of the citizens of mcdowell by ensuring that all fire departments are organized and meet the minimum requirements as defined by the north carolina department of insurance rating system
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The McDowell County Fire Commission receives and allocates county wide fire tax for each fire department. They also allocate to each a portion to each department based on call and response data provided by each fire chief. These funds are for vounteer firefighters who must use personal vehicles in call response. They also fund workers compensation insurance and supplemental insurance for all fire departments and the mcdowell county rescue squad.
$643,004 spent$1,594,947 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $643,004.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $2.7M (+129%).
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 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of MCDOWELL COUNTY FIRE COMMISSION’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 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.
Board chair
Brad Ledbetter
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MCDOWELL COUNTY FIRE COMMISSION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of MCDOWELL COUNTY FIRE COMMISSION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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
MCDOWELL COUNTY FIRE COMMISSION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MCDOWELL COUNTY FIRE COMMISSION
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 MCDOWELL COUNTY FIRE COMMISSION: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MCDOWELL COUNTY FIRE COMMISSION?
- MCDOWELL COUNTY FIRE COMMISSION (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($8,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MCDOWELL COUNTY FIRE COMMISSION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $8,000 in grants to MCDOWELL COUNTY FIRE COMMISSION.
- Who is the largest funder of MCDOWELL COUNTY FIRE COMMISSION?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MCDOWELL COUNTY FIRE COMMISSION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 1 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