Alaska · Nonprofit
PETERSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
PETERSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Alaska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,100 to it, the largest being RASMUSON FOUNDATION ($1,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $39k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $400k
What Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department does
Mission
To serve members of the community of petersburg through professionalism and leadership thereby enhancing fire, emergency medical, and search and rescue services in the city of petersburg. In addition, the association shall serve to promote good will in the community and alaska
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The petersburg vfd (association) sends members to annual fire and ems training conferences around the state to train obtain the latest certifications on fire and eaas. The association sends six to eight members to the asfa/afca fire training conference for five days of training each year. The association also sends 4-8 members to the southeast region emergency medical services (serems) for 2 to 4 days of training each year. The association pays for per diem and/or registration and costs of travel for each of these training events and these activities benefit the entire community. There is other training that is considered by the association including cpr, avalanche, and other fire/ems related training learn not to burn program held during fire prevention week. Volunteer firefighters show videos, provide demonstrations, and distribute materials to 10 elementary school classes over the course of 3 days. There are approximately 15 to 25 volunteer hours, including prep time, depending on the number of volunteers early childhood education fair is held bi-annually. Volunteer members take a fire engine and ambulance to the fair for children to be able to tour the vehicles and learn how…
$67,889 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $67,889.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $257k to $425k (+65%).
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.
24% of PETERSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $200 → $300.
From the IRS filings of PETERSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’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 PETERSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
PETERSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT is better cushioned than half of the 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like PETERSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
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 Alaska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 PETERSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: 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 PETERSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- PETERSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Alaska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,100 to it, the largest being RASMUSON FOUNDATION ($1,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PETERSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,100 in grants to PETERSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PETERSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- RASMUSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PETERSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), 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