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SANDISFIELD FIRE DEPARTMENT INC

SANDISFIELD FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,747 to it, the largest being THE JOHN G MARTIN FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$17k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$9k
Net assets
$251k
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Sandisfield Fire Department Inc does

Mission

Provide fire protection and emergency services for the town of sandisfield

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provide Uniform T-Shirts to Firemen

    $794 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $794.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($30k) Expenses 100 ($22k) Net assets 100 ($243k)2021 Revenue 111 ($33k) Expenses 128 ($28k) Net assets 102 ($248k)2024 Revenue 109 ($33k) Expenses 168 ($36k) Net assets 116 ($281k)2025 Revenue 55 ($17k) Expenses 211 ($46k) Net assets 104 ($251k)
2020202120242025
Revenue (55)Expenses (211)Net assets (104)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $281k to $251k (−10%).

$243k
$248k
$281k
$251k
2020202120242025
Total assets

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.

2020
2021
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

5% of SANDISFIELD FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,797 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’20
$6k
’21
−$4k
’24
−$29k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $2k.

From the IRS filings of SANDISFIELD 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.

How concentrated its funding is

SANDISFIELD FIRE DEPARTMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% 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

57%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 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

SANDISFIELD FIRE DEPARTMENT INC draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states in all.

MA
CT
RI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

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

SANDISFIELD FIRE DEPARTMENT INC's revenue fell 45% between 2020 and 2025.

Operating margin−176% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−11% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

90%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SANDISFIELD 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 SANDISFIELD FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
SANDISFIELD FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,747 to it, the largest being THE JOHN G MARTIN FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SANDISFIELD FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $8,747 in grants to SANDISFIELD FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.
Who is the largest funder of SANDISFIELD FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
THE JOHN G MARTIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SANDISFIELD FIRE DEPARTMENT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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