Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
NORTH PENN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY
NORTH PENN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,332 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($6,470). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What North Penn Volunteer Fire Company does
Mission
To provide protection and emergency medical services to residents of north wales borough, lower gwynedd township, upper gwynedd township and surrounding communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
North Penn Volunteer Fire Company provides fire prevention, fire protection, and emergency medical services to the residents of north wales borough, lower gyynedd township, upper gwynedd township and surrounding municipalities, the company has 61 active volinteers. In 2023 the company responded to a total of 653 emergency calls (294 fire calls and 359 emergency medical service calls). Of those calls 197 were to locations to north wales borough, 186 in lower gwynedd township, 144 in upper gwynedd township and 126 in other municipalities. In 2023, company members spent 488 hours in training activities and 2,182 hours in active response to emergency calls. In addition to time spent in active reponse, company members commit to being 'on call', standing ready to respond on very short notice to emergency calls throughout the year. The company owns its fire house and a fleet of emergency vehicles, including a 100 foot ladder truck, pumpers, and qrs (emergency medical service) vehicles along with a broad array of emergency services equipment, tools, breathing apparatus, and safety gear essential to the delivery of life safety services to the communities that the company serves.
$778,592 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $778,592.
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 2020 to 2021, from $4.7M to $5.8M (+24%).
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 18% · 2018 20% · 2019 34% · 2020 42% · 2021 22% · 2022 8% · 2023 21% · 2024 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $628 → $863.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 NORTH PENN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY’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
NORTH PENN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
60% 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 NORTH PENN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 64% · 2021 77% · 2022 81% · 2023 78% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
29% of NORTH PENN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
60% of NORTH PENN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY'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. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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 NORTH PENN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $90k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$90k
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 NORTH PENN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTH PENN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY?
- NORTH PENN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,332 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($6,470). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTH PENN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $12,332 in grants to NORTH PENN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH PENN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $6,470 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH PENN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 8 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