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PALACIOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC

PALACIOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,500 to it, the largest being THE ED RACHAL FOUNDATION ($14,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$114k
Revenue FY2018
2
Funders on record
$16k
Grants received
$346k
Net assets
0/2 repeat funders

Against its field

PALACIOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,140 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin74% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−58% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,140 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2018

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($273k) Expenses 100 ($12k) Net assets 100 ($261k)2018 Revenue 42 ($114k) Expenses 251 ($29k) Net assets 132 ($346k)
20172018
Revenue (42)Expenses (251)Net assets (132)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of PALACIOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,472 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$261k
17
$85k
18
267
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'25*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of PALACIOS 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

PALACIOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

100% of PALACIOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.

TX

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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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 PALACIOS 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 Texas

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PALACIOS 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.

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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 PALACIOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
PALACIOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,500 to it, the largest being THE ED RACHAL FOUNDATION ($14,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PALACIOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15,500 in grants to PALACIOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.
Who is the largest funder of PALACIOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
THE ED RACHAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $14,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PALACIOS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 2funders 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