Florida · Nonprofit
Merritt Island Volunteer Fire Department
Merritt Island Volunteer Fire Department (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being TRACTOR SUPPLY COMPANY FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $500
- Net assets
- $107k
What Merritt Island Volunteer Fire Department does
Mission
MIVFD is a volunteer department, stationed at Brevard County Fire Rescue (BCFR) Station 41. Our station is manned with career personnel 24 hour a day 7 days a week. We provide additional resources and manpower to BCFR as a secondary response unit. For more than 61 years, our Department has carried out its mission of providing hard-working professional volunteers, dedicated to the delivery of quality public safety service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
MIVFD is a volunteer department, stationed at Brevard County Fire Rescue (BCFR) Station 41. Our station is manned with career personnel 24 hour a day 7 days a week. We provide additional resources and manpower to BCFR as a secondary response unit. For more than 61 years, our Department has carried out its mission of providing hard-working professional volunteers, dedicated to the delivery of quality public safety service.
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $142k to $97k (−31%).
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.
97% of Merritt Island Volunteer Fire Department’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Merritt Island 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.
Where its funders are
Merritt Island Volunteer Fire Department draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Merritt Island Volunteer Fire Department runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,277 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,277 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding Merritt Island Volunteer Fire Department receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $72k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$72k
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 Merritt Island Volunteer Fire Department
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 Florida
Nationally
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Merritt Island Volunteer Fire Department: 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 Merritt Island Volunteer Fire Department?
- Merritt Island Volunteer Fire Department (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being TRACTOR SUPPLY COMPANY FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Merritt Island Volunteer Fire Department have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500 in grants to Merritt Island Volunteer Fire Department.
- Who is the largest funder of Merritt Island Volunteer Fire Department?
- TRACTOR SUPPLY COMPANY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Merritt Island Volunteer Fire Department find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2021–2025), 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