Maine · Nonprofit
SACO VALLEY FIRE ASSOCIATION
SACO VALLEY FIRE ASSOCIATION (Maine) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,047 to it, the largest being CLARENCE E MULFORD TRUST ($65,047). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $188k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $74k
- Net assets
- $464k
What Saco Valley Fire Association does
Mission
Community fire and rescue service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides fire and rescue services on a volunteer basis to the maine town of fryeburg and stow and chatham new hampshire.
$157,933 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $157,933.
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.
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 $311k to $436k (+40%).
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: 2024 69% · 2025 59%. 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 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $17k → $28k.
From the IRS filings of SACO VALLEY FIRE ASSOCIATION’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
SACO VALLEY FIRE ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — 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
88% of SACO VALLEY FIRE ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Government funding SACO VALLEY FIRE ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $133k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$133k
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 SACO VALLEY FIRE ASSOCIATION
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SACO VALLEY FIRE ASSOCIATION: 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 SACO VALLEY FIRE ASSOCIATION?
- SACO VALLEY FIRE ASSOCIATION (Maine) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,047 to it, the largest being CLARENCE E MULFORD TRUST ($65,047). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SACO VALLEY FIRE ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $74,047 in grants to SACO VALLEY FIRE ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SACO VALLEY FIRE ASSOCIATION?
- CLARENCE E MULFORD TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $65,047 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SACO VALLEY FIRE ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 2017–2025), 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