Nebraska · Nonprofit
Ralston Volunteer Fire Department Rescue Squad
Ralston Volunteer Fire Department Rescue Squad (Nebraska) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,103 to it, the largest being THE LEARY FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION ($25,103). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $568k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $613k
What Ralston Volunteer Fire Department Rescue Squad does
Mission
The Ralston Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad, Inc. is committed to the preservation and protection of life, property, and environment from the adverse effects of fire, medical, and hazardous conditions through sustained training, progressive education, and constant diligence to provide the highest level of customer service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fire protection and rescue squad services for City of Ralston, Nebraska and surrounding communities.
$553,609 spent95% of program spendingTraining of members of Fire Department and Rescue Squad.
$27,982 spent5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $581,591.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.2M to $1.0M (−16%).
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.
17% of Ralston Volunteer Fire Department Rescue Squad’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% 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
2019 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $25k.
From the IRS filings of Ralston Volunteer Fire Department Rescue Squad’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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.
Where its funders are
Ralston Volunteer Fire Department Rescue Squad draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Nebraska, across 1 state in all.
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
Ralston Volunteer Fire Department Rescue Squad is better cushioned than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Ralston Volunteer Fire Department Rescue Squad receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $707k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$707k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Ralston Volunteer Fire Department Rescue Squad
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 Nebraska
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Ralston Volunteer Fire Department Rescue Squad?
- Ralston Volunteer Fire Department Rescue Squad (Nebraska) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,103 to it, the largest being THE LEARY FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION ($25,103). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ralston Volunteer Fire Department Rescue Squad have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $25,103 in grants to Ralston Volunteer Fire Department Rescue Squad, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ralston Volunteer Fire Department Rescue Squad?
- THE LEARY FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,103 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ralston Volunteer Fire Department Rescue Squad find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 2 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