Alabama · Nonprofit
REAL ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
REAL ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being THE FERGUSON FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
REAL ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,061 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,061 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundationshared funders
- The Leary Firefighters Foundationportfolio match
- Nextdoor Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2022 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of REAL ISLAND 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. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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 REAL ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT 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.
Where its funders are
100% of REAL ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC's grant income comes from Alabama 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundationshared fundersAL · backs 5 organizations that share your funders
- The Leary Firefighters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nextdoor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pee Dee Electric Membership Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Holy Name of Jesus Hospital Trustshared fundersAL · backs 3 organizations that share your funders
- Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fm Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mid-South Resource Conservation and Development Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Lee Upham and Chester R Upham Jr Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- US Wind Force Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Firefighters Charities Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding REAL ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $679k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$679k
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 REAL ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% 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 REAL ISLAND 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds REAL ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC?
- REAL ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being THE FERGUSON FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REAL ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to REAL ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REAL ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC?
- THE FERGUSON FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REAL ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing