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Salem Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Salem Volunteer Fire Department Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $61,500 to it, the largest being THE JESSE AND ROSE LOEB FOUNDATION INC ($61,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$442k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$62k
Net assets
$1.7M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Salem Volunteer Fire Department Inc does

Mission

Fire fighting and rescue services serving the community of Culpeper County, Virginia.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provides rescue and fire fighting services to the community of Culpeper, Virginia

    $494,589 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $494,589.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($307k) Expenses 100 ($372k) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2018 Revenue 101 ($309k) Expenses 96 ($356k) Net assets 97 ($1.9M)2019 Revenue 127 ($389k) Expenses 110 ($411k) Net assets 97 ($1.9M)2020 Revenue 112 ($344k) Expenses 77 ($288k) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 105 ($324k) Expenses 86 ($319k) Net assets 101 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 100 ($306k) Expenses 114 ($426k) Net assets 94 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 117 ($360k) Expenses 133 ($496k) Net assets 87 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 144 ($442k) Expenses 148 ($550k) Net assets 83 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (144)Expenses (148)Net assets (83)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 2021 to 2022, from $2.6M to $2.5M (−6%).

$2.9M
$2.7M
$2.6M
$2.7M
$2.6M
$2.5M
$2.4M
$2.3M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 63% · 2018 63% · 2019 71% · 2020 64% · 2021 71% · 2022 75% · 2023 61% · 2024 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

89% of Salem Volunteer Fire Department Inc’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. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$65k
’17
−$47k
’18
−$23k
’19
$56k
’20
$4k
’21
−$120k
’22
−$137k
’23
−$108k
’24
3.8
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.

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Listed77757777
Joined·+1+1+4+2+0+3+0
No longer listed·1160030
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of Salem 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 Salem Volunteer Fire Department Inc's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

VA

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

Salem Volunteer Fire Department Inc's revenue grew 44% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−24% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Salem 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 Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

96%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Salem Volunteer Fire Department Inc?
Salem Volunteer Fire Department Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $61,500 to it, the largest being THE JESSE AND ROSE LOEB FOUNDATION INC ($61,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Salem Volunteer Fire Department Inc have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $61,500 in grants to Salem Volunteer Fire Department Inc.
Who is the largest funder of Salem Volunteer Fire Department Inc?
THE JESSE AND ROSE LOEB FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $61,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Salem Volunteer Fire Department Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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