South Carolina · Nonprofit
POPLAR SPRINGS FIRE SERVICE AREA INC
POPLAR SPRINGS FIRE SERVICE AREA INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Poplar Springs Fire Service Area Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to strive to provide an adequate, cost effective level of fire protection and rescue services to the citizens of the poplar springs fire district.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Poplar springs fire department is a combination department (both volunteers and full-time staff) covering over 49 square miles and serves a community with between 18,000-20,000 people and four stations. Some of the services provided include the following: fire inspection and suppression, auto extrication, confined space rescue, medical first responder services, public education, fire prevention, and fire extinguisher training. The poplar springs fire district is one of the fastest growing areas of spartanburg county.
$2,518,103 spentof which $2,406 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,518,103.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $2.0M to $3.1M (+54%).
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 101% · 2018 93% · 2019 95% · 2020 98% · 2021 99% · 2022 97% · 2023 99% · 2024 98% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Board chair
Chris Taylor
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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In South 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
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POPLAR SPRINGS FIRE SERVICE AREA INC: 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 POPLAR SPRINGS FIRE SERVICE AREA INC?
- POPLAR SPRINGS FIRE SERVICE AREA INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does POPLAR SPRINGS FIRE SERVICE AREA INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to POPLAR SPRINGS FIRE SERVICE AREA INC.
- Who is the largest funder of POPLAR SPRINGS FIRE SERVICE AREA INC?
- FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POPLAR SPRINGS FIRE SERVICE AREA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South 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