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OAK GROVE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC

OAK GROVE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being CARMAX FOUNDATION ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$643k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$-387230
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Oak Grove Volunteer Fire Dept Inc does

Mission

Save lives & property from fire within their assigned district. Educate the public on fire safety and prevention.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Extinguishing fires and teaching fire prevention in the community in order to save lives and property. Approximately 676 families received our services in fiscal year 2024.

    $467,314 spent$642,802 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $467,314.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($400k) Expenses 100 ($336k)2018 Revenue 121 ($483k) Expenses 122 ($410k)2019 Revenue 123 ($491k) Expenses 161 ($539k)2020 Revenue 137 ($549k) Expenses 163 ($546k)2021 Revenue 108 ($432k) Expenses 165 ($555k)2022 Revenue 133 ($531k) Expenses 156 ($525k)2023 Revenue 156 ($623k) Expenses 176 ($590k)2024 Revenue 168 ($671k) Expenses 211 ($709k)2025 Revenue 161 ($643k) Expenses 156 ($525k)
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Revenue (161)Expenses (156)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 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $1.5M (+18%).

$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.2M
$1.4M
$1.2M
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.5M
$1.6M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 34% · 2018 21% · 2019 18% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

4% of OAK GROVE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,485 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$64k
’17
$72k
’18
−$48k
’19
$3k
’20
−$123k
’21
$6k
’22
$33k
’23
−$38k
’24
$118k
’25
3.2
months of
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

John Tallent

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed555554495
Joined·+1+0+0+3+0+1+7+1
No longer listed·10031125
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $500.

Funder
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'20
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of OAK GROVE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT 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.

Where its funders are

OAK GROVE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.

VA

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

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’20
North Carolina out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

OAK GROVE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · above the median
Months of reserve3.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like OAK GROVE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC

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In North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

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Questions and answers

Who funds OAK GROVE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC?
OAK GROVE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being CARMAX FOUNDATION ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OAK GROVE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to OAK GROVE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OAK GROVE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC?
CARMAX FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OAK GROVE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC 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.

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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