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PAYNE FIRE ASSOCIATION

PAYNE FIRE ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,868 to it, the largest being PAULDING COUNTY AREA FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$35k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$19k
Net assets
$24k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Payne Fire Association does

Mission

Volunteer fire department for the village of payne ohio.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Volunteer firemen

  2. Put out fires for surrounding communities and village of payne ohio

    $31,803 spent
    100% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $31,803.

02The organization over time
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'25*
total
funders
2

From the IRS filings of PAYNE FIRE ASSOCIATION’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

PAYNE FIRE ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% 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

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund PAYNE FIRE ASSOCIATION.

53%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
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 PAYNE FIRE ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

OH

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

PAYNE FIRE ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like PAYNE FIRE ASSOCIATION

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 Ohio

St Henry Volunteer Fire Department80%Miller City Volunteer Fire Dept79%South Zanesville Volunteer Fire Department Inc78%Hillndale Volunteer Fire Depart Inc78%Volunteer Firemen's Association of Minster-Jackson Township Inc78%Pleasant Hill Volunteer Fire Dept78%Volunteer Firemen of Magnolia Inc77%Windsor Township Volunteer Fire Department77%

Nationally

Payne Springs Volunteer Fire Department Inc84%St Henry Volunteer Fire Department80%Spencer Twp Volunteer Fire Dept80%Pleasantville Fire Rescue Associati80%Pensacola Volunteer Fire Department Inc80%Weston Volunteer Fire Department Inc79%Miller City Volunteer Fire Dept79%Red Oak Volunteer Fire & Rescue Assoc79%
05Profile & governance

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PAYNE FIRE ASSOCIATION: 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 PAYNE FIRE ASSOCIATION?
PAYNE FIRE ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,868 to it, the largest being PAULDING COUNTY AREA FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PAYNE FIRE ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $18,868 in grants to PAYNE FIRE ASSOCIATION.
Who is the largest funder of PAYNE FIRE ASSOCIATION?
PAULDING COUNTY AREA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PAYNE FIRE ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 2 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