Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
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.
- Revenue FY2024
- $818k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Perseverance Volunteer Fire Co No 1 does
Mission
The support of a fire engine, hook and ladder and hose company for the control of fire in the borough of souderton and the surrounding community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The support of a fire engine, hook and ladder and hose company for the control of fire in the borough of souderton, montgomery county pennyslvania and the surronding community
$352,848 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $352,848.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.1M to $3.5M (+12%).
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 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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
PERSEVERANCE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO 1 runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PERSEVERANCE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO 1
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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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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.
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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 6 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