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RISING SUN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC

RISING SUN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,470 to it, the largest being OHIO COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($50,370). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$324k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$50k
Net assets
$1.6M
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Rising Sun Volunteer Fire Dept Inc does

Mission

Through fire and rescue services, the rising sun volunteer fire department is committed to protect the lives and property of the city of rising sun and the surrounding community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Volunteer fire department

    $203,758 spent$325,961 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $203,758.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($167k) Expenses 100 ($179k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 109 ($182k) Expenses 95 ($170k) Net assets 101 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 102 ($171k) Expenses 106 ($189k) Net assets 99 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 145 ($241k) Expenses 102 ($181k) Net assets 104 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 247 ($411k) Expenses 105 ($187k) Net assets 121 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 121 ($202k) Expenses 106 ($189k) Net assets 123 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 194 ($324k) Expenses 118 ($211k) Net assets 132 ($1.6M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (194)Expenses (118)Net assets (132)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.3M to $1.5M (+16%).

$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.6M
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$12k
’18
$11k
’19
−$19k
’20
$60k
’21
$224k
’22
$13k
’23
$113k
’24
36
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.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed5554555
Joined·+0+0+2+1+0+0
No longer listed·003000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $15k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'21
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
2
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 RISING SUN 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.

How concentrated its funding is

RISING SUN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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

100% 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 RISING SUN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC.

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 99% — 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

100% of RISING SUN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT 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 $100 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Indiana funders.

IN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like RISING SUN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

93%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RISING SUN 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds RISING SUN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC?
RISING SUN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,470 to it, the largest being OHIO COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($50,370). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does RISING SUN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $50,470 in grants to RISING SUN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RISING SUN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC?
OHIO COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,370 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RISING SUN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), 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