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PATETOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC

PATETOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $450 to it, the largest being ELLEN & MUNROE BEST FAMILY FOUNDATION ($450). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$355k
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$450
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($165k) Expenses 100 ($119k) Net assets 100 ($524k)2018 Revenue 158 ($261k) Expenses 140 ($166k) Net assets 139 ($729k)2019 Revenue 135 ($223k) Expenses 104 ($124k) Net assets 158 ($829k)2020 Revenue 169 ($279k) Expenses 120 ($142k) Net assets 184 ($966k)2021 Revenue 143 ($236k) Expenses 113 ($134k) Net assets 204 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 153 ($252k) Expenses 116 ($138k) Net assets 225 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 227 ($375k) Expenses 125 ($148k) Net assets 269 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 191 ($315k) Expenses 164 ($195k) Net assets 291 ($1.5M)2025 Revenue 215 ($355k) Expenses 148 ($175k) Net assets 326 ($1.7M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (215)Expenses (148)Net assets (326)

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 96% · 2018 69% · 2019 94% · 2020 80% · 2021 96% · 2022 97% · 2023 97% · 2024 94% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$46k
’17
$95k
’18
$100k
’19
$137k
’20
$101k
’21
$114k
’22
$227k
’23
$120k
’24
$179k
’25
37
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
'24*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of PATETOWN 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

100% of PATETOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC

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 PATETOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT 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 North Carolina

Advance Fire Department Inc76%Pocket Volunteer Fire Department Inc76%Pine Level Volunteer Fire Dept Inc75%Pittsboro Volunteer Fire & Rescue Department Inc75%Providence Fire and Rescue Inc75%Florence Whortonsville Volunteer Fire Department75%Monroeton Volunteer Fire Department75%Thoroughfare Vol Fire Dept Inc74%

Nationally

Belle Valley Volunteer Fire Company84%Ralston Volunteer Fire Co83%The Glade Park Volunteer Fire Department80%Volunteer Fire Association of Tappan80%Park River Volunteer Fire Dept78%Sherrard Volunteer Fire Department Inc78%St Anthony Volunteer Fire Department Inc78%Pleasant Plains Vol Fire Dept No 178%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PATETOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT 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 PATETOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC?
PATETOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $450 to it, the largest being ELLEN & MUNROE BEST FAMILY FOUNDATION ($450). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PATETOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $450 in grants to PATETOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PATETOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC?
ELLEN & MUNROE BEST FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PATETOWN 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.

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 1funders 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