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READLYN VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTER ASSOC INC

READLYN VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTER ASSOC INC (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,763 to it, the largest being BLACK HAWK COUNTY GAMING ASSOCIATION ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$141k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$26k
Net assets
$497k
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Readlyn Volunteer Fire Fighter Assoc Inc does

Mission

Support city fof readlyn iowa fire department and firefighters with fundraising and donations for buildings, equipment and training.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Support the city of readlyn, iowa fire department with fundraising and donations to build a new fire station building.

    $21,458 spentof which $7,123 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $21,458.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($26k) Expenses 100 ($16k) Net assets 100 ($41k)2022 Revenue 179 ($46k) Expenses 253 ($41k) Net assets 114 ($47k)2023 Revenue 204 ($53k) Expenses 300 ($48k) Net assets 126 ($52k)2024 Revenue 1317 ($341k) Expenses 102 ($16k) Net assets 912 ($377k)2025 Revenue 544 ($141k) Expenses 134 ($21k) Net assets 1201 ($497k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (544)Expenses (134)Net assets (1201)Peer revenue range

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 $52k to $377k (+623%).

$41k
$47k
$52k
$377k
$497k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

71% of READLYN VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTER ASSOC INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,485 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’21
$6k
’22
$5k
’23
$325k
’24
$119k
’25
278
months of
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.

20242025
Listed57
Joined·+2
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $296.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 READLYN VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTER ASSOC INC’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.

How concentrated its funding is

READLYN VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTER ASSOC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94% 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 READLYN VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTER ASSOC INC.

58%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 84% — diversifying over time.

“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

91% of READLYN VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTER ASSOC INC's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

MN
WI
IA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’23
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

READLYN VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTER ASSOC INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin85% · top quartile
Months of reserve277.7mo · outside the comparable range
Revenue growth (annualized)53% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like READLYN VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTER ASSOC INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds READLYN VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTER ASSOC INC?
READLYN VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTER ASSOC INC (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,763 to it, the largest being BLACK HAWK COUNTY GAMING ASSOCIATION ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does READLYN VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTER ASSOC INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $25,763 in grants to READLYN VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTER ASSOC INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of READLYN VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTER ASSOC INC?
BLACK HAWK COUNTY GAMING ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like READLYN VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTER ASSOC INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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