Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
RUSSELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
RUSSELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $18,581 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Warren County ($18,581). 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
- $271k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $19k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Russell Volunteer Fire Department does
Mission
The object of the organization shall be the preservation and protection of life and property from and during such fires and emergencies as may occur in pine grove township and vicinity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Volunteer fire department: the department is responsible for answering all calls for assistance for pine grove township, warren county, pa, and for a designated area of farmington township, warren county, pa. The volunteers respond to motor vehicle accidents (mva) and emergency medical services (ems) calls, structure fires, vehicle fires, wild land fires, traffic control, and general emergency assistance when needed.approximately 40+ members of the community are currently involved in firefighting duties and the junior membership varies from year to year.
$165,148 spentof which $2,935 as grants$98,110 earned by the program70% of program spendingAmbulance service: the department is responsible for answering emergency medical services (ems) calls for pine grove township, warren county, pa, and for a designated area of farmington township, warren county, pa.
$70,778 spent$45,799 earned by the program30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $235,926.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.0M to $1.1M (+14%).
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: 2017 55% · 2018 48% · 2019 50% · 2020 61% · 2021 46% · 2022 42% · 2023 63% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of RUSSELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Michael English
Ambulance chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $5k.
1 of 1 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 RUSSELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’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 RUSSELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k 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.
Against its field
RUSSELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT is better cushioned than half of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Russell Volunteer Fire Department Relief Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RUSSELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: 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 RUSSELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- RUSSELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $18,581 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Warren County ($18,581). 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 RUSSELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $18,581 in grants to RUSSELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RUSSELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- Community Foundation of Warren County is the largest funder on record, with $18,581 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RUSSELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2024), 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