Florida · Nonprofit
OCEAN REEF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
OCEAN REEF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Florida) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,645 to it, the largest being THE CAYUGA FOUNDATION PFDN 20-0323300 ($17,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
OCEAN REEF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 416 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 416 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Community Foundation of the Florida Keyslocal
- Nextdoor Foundationportfolio match
- Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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 24% · 2018 13% · 2019 9% · 2020 12% · 2021 13% · 2022 13% · 2023 9% · 2024 13% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of OCEAN REEF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (71% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $295 → $175.
Left out of every figure on this page: $38k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ocean Reef Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money OCEAN REEF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC raised.
From the IRS filings of OCEAN REEF VOLUNTEER 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
OCEAN REEF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 42% · 2021 75% · 2022 92% · 2023 100% — 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
0% of OCEAN REEF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
OCEAN REEF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 379 organizations that share them.
- Community Foundation of the Florida KeyslocalFL · funds 88 organizations near you
- Nextdoor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leary Firefighters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fm Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pee Dee Electric Membership Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gary Sinise Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mid-South Resource Conservation and Development Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Lee Upham and Chester R Upham Jr Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clark Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like OCEAN REEF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- North Key Largo Utility Corp · exempt
- Ocean Reef Community Assocation Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OCEAN REEF VOLUNTEER 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds OCEAN REEF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- OCEAN REEF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Florida) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,645 to it, the largest being THE CAYUGA FOUNDATION PFDN 20-0323300 ($17,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OCEAN REEF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $37,645 in grants to OCEAN REEF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OCEAN REEF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- THE CAYUGA FOUNDATION PFDN 20-0323300 is the largest funder on record, with $17,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OCEAN REEF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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.
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 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing