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RED LICK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC

RED LICK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $400 to it, the largest being TRACTOR SUPPLY COMPANY FOUNDATION ($250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$71k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$400
Net assets
$322k
1/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Red Lick Volunteer Fire Department Inc does

Mission

To provide volunteer emergency services.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Responded to 143 emergency dispatches. That includes 37 vehicle accident calls.

    $37,635 spentof which $55,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,635.

02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $53 → $97.

Funder
'20
'21
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 RED LICK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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

RED LICK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

38% 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 RED LICK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.

63%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 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

RED LICK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 1 state in all.

TN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

03Its place in the field

Against its field

RED LICK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin47% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Government funding RED LICK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $84k on record.

Federal$84k
grants $84kcontracts $0
20
21
22
Top agencies
  • Department of Homeland Security$84k

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 RED LICK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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 Kentucky

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Public support

89%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KY

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Questions and answers

Who funds RED LICK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
RED LICK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $400 to it, the largest being TRACTOR SUPPLY COMPANY FOUNDATION ($250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RED LICK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $400 in grants to RED LICK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RED LICK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
TRACTOR SUPPLY COMPANY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RED LICK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2025–2025), 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