Delaware · Nonprofit
MILTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
MILTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Delaware) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,425 to it, the largest being DRAPER HOLDINGS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION I ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $90k
- Net assets
- $8.8M
What Milton Fire Department Inc does
Mission
Volunteer company-fire fighting and prevention
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Fire awareness, prevention, extinguishing of fire, and emergency rescue, medical services and transportation for milton, delaware area and vicinity.
$2,432,311 spent$1,818,483 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,432,311.
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 2019 to 2020, from $7.2M to $10M (+43%).
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 48% · 2018 67% · 2019 55% · 2020 60% · 2021 76% · 2022 70% · 2023 60% · 2024 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $200 → $500.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 MILTON FIRE DEPARTMENT 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
MILTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 MILTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 71% · 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
MILTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37k 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.
Government funding MILTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.2M on record.
- GRANTS IN AID$4.7M
- PASSTHRU ACCOUNT EXPENSE$303k
- MEDICAL SERVICES$131k
- REFUND-CONTRIBUTION TO MEMBERS$18k
- SAFETY/EMERG TRAIN EQUIP$8k
- COST SHARE$3k
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 MILTON FIRE DEPARTMENT 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MILTON FIRE DEPARTMENT 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 MILTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- MILTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Delaware) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,425 to it, the largest being DRAPER HOLDINGS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION I ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MILTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $90,425 in grants to MILTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MILTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- DRAPER HOLDINGS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION I is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MILTON FIRE DEPARTMENT 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing