North Carolina · Nonprofit
POOLE TOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
POOLE TOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,596 to it, the largest being MARGARET C WOODSON FOUNDATION INC ($4,596). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $270k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $831k
What Poole Town Volunteer Fire Department does
Mission
To provide community fire protection and emergency medical services
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide fire protection and emergency medical services for he citizens of its fire district
$214,364 spentof which $36,297 as grants$255,806 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $214,364.
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 2023 to 2024, from $743k to $1.2M (+56%).
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 78% · 2018 72% · 2019 66% · 2020 75% · 2021 93% · 2022 91% · 2023 66% · 2024 32% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of POOLE TOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of POOLE TOWN 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 POOLE TOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
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
POOLE TOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like POOLE TOWN 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POOLE TOWN 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 POOLE TOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- POOLE TOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,596 to it, the largest being MARGARET C WOODSON FOUNDATION INC ($4,596). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does POOLE TOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $4,596 in grants to POOLE TOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT.
- Who is the largest funder of POOLE TOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- MARGARET C WOODSON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,596 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POOLE TOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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 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