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REHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC

REHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC (Delaware) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $359,763 to it, the largest being DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($255,250). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$4.6M
Revenue FY2024
23
Funders on record
$360k
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
12/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%

Against its field

REHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin26% · above the median
Months of reserve6.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.2M) Expenses 100 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($7.1M)2018 Revenue 128 ($2.8M) Expenses 113 ($2.3M) Net assets 107 ($7.6M)2019 Revenue 141 ($3.0M) Expenses 115 ($2.3M) Net assets 118 ($8.4M)2020 Revenue 121 ($2.6M) Expenses 121 ($2.4M) Net assets 122 ($8.6M)2021 Revenue 139 ($3.0M) Expenses 129 ($2.6M) Net assets 128 ($9.0M)2022 Revenue 178 ($3.8M) Expenses 146 ($2.9M) Net assets 140 ($9.9M)2023 Revenue 190 ($4.1M) Expenses 155 ($3.1M) Net assets 156 ($11M)2024 Revenue 211 ($4.6M) Expenses 168 ($3.4M) Net assets 174 ($12M)
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Revenue (211)Expenses (168)Net assets (174)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 44% · 2018 47% · 2019 57% · 2020 55% · 2021 43% · 2022 50% · 2023 46% · 2024 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

55% of REHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (71% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 856 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$160k
17
$497k
18
$738k
19
$200k
20
$429k
21
$929k
22
$1.0M
23
$1.2M
24
6.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $15k → $15k.

5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)85% 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 REHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 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

REHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

85% 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 REHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC.

71%
largest funder
81%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 83% · 2019 92% · 2020 88% · 2021 50% · 2022 98% · 2023 77%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.

How long its funders stay

50% of REHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

85% of REHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 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 $55k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from funders outside Delaware, across 10 states.

NY
MA
PA
NJ
VA
MD
DE
DC
LA
FL

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

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Delaware out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $304k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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

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. Your 23 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 REHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.3M on record — $792k federal, $7.5M state.

Federal$792k
grants $792kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Homeland Security$792k
State$7.5M
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Top programs
  • GRANTS IN AID$5.1M
  • FED GRANT SUB RECIPIENT$1.6M
  • PASSTHRU ACCOUNT EXPENSE$588k
  • MEDICAL SERVICES$261k
  • REFUND-CONTRIBUTION TO MEMBERS$5k
  • CLAIM PAYMENTS$5k

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 REHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 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 Delaware

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 2%Fundraising 3%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

97%

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 REHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 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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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 REHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC?
REHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC (Delaware) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $359,763 to it, the largest being DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($255,250). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does REHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $359,763 in grants to REHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of REHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC?
DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $255,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like REHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 23funders 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