Texas · Nonprofit
PARADISE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
PARADISE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,550 to it, the largest being The State Firemens and Fire Marshals Association of Texas ($6,550). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $431k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $243k
What Paradise Volunteer Fire Department Inc does
Mission
Volunteer fire department
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Protect community and surrounding area from personal and property damage by fire
$177,399 spent$389,472 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $177,399.
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 2023 to 2024, from $843k to $306k (−64%).
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 59% · 2018 48% · 2019 15% · 2020 62% · 2021 100% · 2022 70% · 2023 86% · 2024 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of PARADISE 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.
Where its funders are
100% of PARADISE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
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.
Organizations like PARADISE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARADISE 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds PARADISE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- PARADISE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,550 to it, the largest being The State Firemens and Fire Marshals Association of Texas ($6,550). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARADISE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,550 in grants to PARADISE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.
- Who is the largest funder of PARADISE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- The State Firemens and Fire Marshals Association of Texas is the largest funder on record, with $6,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARADISE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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