Texas · Nonprofit
POTOSI VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
POTOSI VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,152 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABILENE ($83,425). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $225k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $108k
- Net assets
- $456k
What Potosi Volunteer Fire Dept Inc does
Mission
Provide fire suppression, rescue operations and emergency medical services for individuals, families and businesses physically located in the potosi volunteer fire department, inc service area.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Fire suppression, rescue operations and emergency medical services for individuals, families and businesses physically located in the potosi volunteer fire department, inc service area.
$200,980 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $200,980.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $444k to $505k (+14%).
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: 2018 29% · 2019 22% · 2020 18% · 2021 27% · 2022 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of POTOSI VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC’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. 5 of the last 7 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 2 funders, grant income rose $500 → $26k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 POTOSI VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. 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
POTOSI VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 POTOSI VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 94% · 2020 48% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
78% of POTOSI VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $24k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84k 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
POTOSI VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $108k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like POTOSI VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
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 Texas
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 POTOSI VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT 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 POTOSI VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC?
- POTOSI VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,152 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABILENE ($83,425). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does POTOSI VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $108,152 in grants to POTOSI VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POTOSI VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABILENE is the largest funder on record, with $83,425 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POTOSI VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 8 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