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MIMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC

MIMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,084 to it, the largest being GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ($35,011). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$27k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$37k
Net assets
$148k
1/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Mims Volunteer Fire Dept Inc does

Mission

Volunteer Fire Department providing EMS and Fire Fighting protection to our community year round

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Volunteer Fire Department providing Brevard County, FL EMS and Fire Fighting protection year round

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($97k) Expenses 100 ($94k) Net assets 100 ($109k)2022 Revenue 31 ($30k) Expenses 17 ($16k) Net assets 113 ($123k)2023 Revenue 28 ($27k) Expenses 3 ($2k) Net assets 136 ($148k)
202120222023
Revenue (28)Expenses (3)Net assets (136)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $123k to $148k (+20%).

$109k
$123k
$148k
202120222023
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

2% of MIMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,797 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’21
$14k
’22
$25k
’23
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $175.

Funder
'18
'21
'22
'23
'25*
total
$35k
funders
1
3
1
1
1

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 MIMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 funders by total. 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

MIMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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 MIMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC.

94%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2021 100% · 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

MIMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 2 states in all.

TN
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’21
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $573 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MIMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC's revenue fell 72% between 2021 and 2023.

Operating margin91% · outside the comparable range
Revenue growth (annualized)−47% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,153 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2023

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIMS 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 MIMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC?
MIMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,084 to it, the largest being GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ($35,011). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MIMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $37,084 in grants to MIMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MIMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC?
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,011 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MIMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), and the filings of 5 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