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Rensselaerville Volunteer Fire Company

Rensselaerville Volunteer Fire Company (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being W P CAREY FOUNDATION INC ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$129k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$75k
Net assets
$362k
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Rensselaerville Volunteer Fire Company does

Mission

The purpose of this organization is to help the Town of Rensselaerville and neighboring communities by protecting life, property, and the environment from loss due to fire, accident, and natural disasters.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Rensselaerville directly services a 27 square mile radius as well as providing mutual aid to surrounding areas and communities. This organization continues to help our community and neighboring communities by protecting life, property, and the environment from loss due to fire, motor vehicle accidents, and natural disasters with fire suppression, extrication, rescue and organized community assistance. Our sole purpose is in community service and being able to provide these services to all businesses and community members within the area

    $118,433 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $118,433.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($184k) Expenses 100 ($132k) Net assets 100 ($357k)2025 Revenue 70 ($129k) Expenses 93 ($124k) Net assets 101 ($362k)
20242025
Revenue (70)Expenses (93)Net assets (101)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 2024 to 2025, from $418k to $403k (−3%).

$418k
$403k
20242025
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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 41% · 2025 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of Rensselaerville Volunteer Fire Company’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$52k
’24
$5k
’25
23
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
Listed77
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $25k.

Funder
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of Rensselaerville Volunteer Fire Company’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 Rensselaerville Volunteer Fire Company's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

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

’22
’23
New York out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Rensselaerville Volunteer Fire Company is better cushioned than half of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve22.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−30% · bottom quartile

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

Organizations like Rensselaerville Volunteer Fire Company

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In New York

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 1%Fundraising 3%

Governance

42
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Rensselaerville Volunteer Fire Company: 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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Questions and answers

Who funds Rensselaerville Volunteer Fire Company?
Rensselaerville Volunteer Fire Company (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being W P CAREY FOUNDATION INC ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Rensselaerville Volunteer Fire Company have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $75,000 in grants to Rensselaerville Volunteer Fire Company, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Rensselaerville Volunteer Fire Company?
W P CAREY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Rensselaerville Volunteer Fire Company find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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