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PERSEVERANCE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO 1

PERSEVERANCE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO 1 (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,439 to it, the largest being MARCHO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$818k
Revenue FY2024
6
Funders on record
$32k
Grants received
$3.6M
Net assets
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

Against its field

PERSEVERANCE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO 1 runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,061 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin49% · top quartile
Months of reserve17.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,061 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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 ($266k) Expenses 100 ($323k) Net assets 100 ($2.9M)2018 Revenue 121 ($323k) Expenses 100 ($322k) Net assets 98 ($2.8M)2019 Revenue 121 ($322k) Expenses 97 ($315k) Net assets 100 ($2.9M)2020 Revenue 137 ($365k) Expenses 91 ($293k) Net assets 104 ($3.0M)2021 Revenue 172 ($459k) Expenses 92 ($299k) Net assets 111 ($3.2M)2022 Revenue 157 ($417k) Expenses 97 ($314k) Net assets 109 ($3.1M)2023 Revenue 159 ($422k) Expenses 106 ($343k) Net assets 115 ($3.3M)2024 Revenue 308 ($818k) Expenses 128 ($414k) Net assets 127 ($3.6M)
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Revenue (308)Expenses (128)Net assets (127)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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2019 5% · 2020 4% · 2021 9% · 2022 4% · 2023 9% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

72% of PERSEVERANCE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO 1’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$57k
17
$670
18
$7k
19
$72k
20
$160k
21
$103k
22
$80k
23
$405k
24
17
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $7k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of PERSEVERANCE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO 1’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

PERSEVERANCE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO 1 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

41% 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 PERSEVERANCE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO 1.

31%
largest funder
71%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 86% · 2022 90% · 2023 84%diversifying over time.

“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 PERSEVERANCE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO 1's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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 PERSEVERANCE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO 1

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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 11%Fundraising 4%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

78%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PERSEVERANCE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO 1: 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 PERSEVERANCE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO 1?
PERSEVERANCE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO 1 (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,439 to it, the largest being MARCHO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PERSEVERANCE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO 1 have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $32,439 in grants to PERSEVERANCE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO 1, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PERSEVERANCE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO 1?
MARCHO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC 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 PERSEVERANCE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO 1 find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 6funders 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