Virginia · Nonprofit
SAUNDERS VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC
SAUNDERS VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,100 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($14,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $219k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $894k
What Saunders Volunteer Fire Co Inc does
Mission
Community fire protection
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The saunders volunteer fire co., inc. Operates and maintains two fire stations located in bedford county va to provide fire protection to approximately 2500 homes and business properties. They responded to 124 calls in 2024
$414,718 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $414,718.
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 2022 to 2023, from $827k to $904k (+9%).
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 50% · 2018 49% · 2019 49% · 2020 46% · 2021 49% · 2022 33% · 2023 22% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $250.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 SAUNDERS VOLUNTEER FIRE CO 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
SAUNDERS VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
97% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SAUNDERS VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 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
97% of SAUNDERS VOLUNTEER FIRE CO 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. Of the $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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.
Organizations like SAUNDERS VOLUNTEER FIRE CO 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAUNDERS VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC?
- SAUNDERS VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,100 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($14,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SAUNDERS VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15,100 in grants to SAUNDERS VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAUNDERS VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $14,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAUNDERS VOLUNTEER FIRE CO 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 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