Tennessee · Nonprofit
Rutledge Volunteer Fire Department Inc
Rutledge Volunteer Fire Department Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $52 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($52). 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 FY2025
- $62k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $52
- Net assets
- $321k
What Rutledge Volunteer Fire Department Inc does
Mission
Provide firefighting and rescue services to protect life and property for the citizens within the coverage area of Rutledge and surrounding Grainger County Tennessee and provide occasional fire safety information.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Responded to over 89 emergency dispatches for fires including brush fires vehicle fires power line fires and structure fires benefitting at least 196 citizens although the exact number is unknown. Provided fire extinguishment and scene safety services.
$34,096 spent56% of program spendingResponded to over 34 emergency dispatches for motor vehicle accidents providing extrication of trapped persons and assisting EMS in packaging and transporting injured persons benefitting at least 40 citizens but the exact number is unknown.
$13,026 spent21% of program spendingResponded to over 37 emergency dispatches for medical and other rescue situations providing basic life-saving services such as CPR and assisting EMS with injured and ill persons benefitting at least 37 citizens but the exact number is unknown.
$14,175 spent23% of program spendingGave fire safety presentations to various groups including elementary school classes and Girl and Boy Scout troops. Provided pumping services to local churches during floods
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $61,297.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $304k to $321k (+6%).
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.
100% of Rutledge Volunteer Fire Department Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Robert Cameron
Director Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $18 → $24.
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 Rutledge 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Rutledge Volunteer Fire Department 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52 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
Rutledge Volunteer Fire Department Inc receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $52 to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Rutledge 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Rutledge Volunteer Fire Department 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 Rutledge Volunteer Fire Department Inc?
- Rutledge Volunteer Fire Department Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $52 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($52). 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 Rutledge Volunteer Fire Department Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $52 in grants to Rutledge Volunteer Fire Department Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rutledge Volunteer Fire Department Inc?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $52 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rutledge Volunteer Fire Department Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2023–2025), 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