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SENECA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT

SENECA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,954 to it, the largest being ARTHUR W PHILLIPS TRUST UW ($18,048). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$551k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$19k
Net assets
$2.3M
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Seneca Volunteer Fire Department does

Mission

Volunteer fire protection and emergency services

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provision of a volunteer fire department including the maintenance and purchase of equipment; and the training of volunteers

    $334,495 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $334,495.

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 ($461k) Expenses 100 ($171k) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 47 ($214k) Expenses 112 ($191k) Net assets 101 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 54 ($251k) Expenses 111 ($189k) Net assets 104 ($2.0M)2023 Revenue 83 ($383k) Expenses 118 ($201k) Net assets 108 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 120 ($551k) Expenses 210 ($359k) Net assets 118 ($2.3M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (120)Expenses (210)Net assets (118)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 2023 to 2024, from $2.1M to $2.3M (+9%).

$2.0M
$2.0M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$2.3M
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 80% · 2021 42% · 2022 55% · 2023 28% · 2024 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

79% of SENECA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’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. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$290k
’20
$23k
’21
$62k
’22
$182k
’23
$193k
’24
23
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed1414141414
Joined·+4+0+4+0
No longer listed·4040
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $18k → $110.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 SENECA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’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

SENECA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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

95%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 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

97% of SENECA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA
TN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $406 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SENECA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin35% · above the median
Months of reserve23.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

91%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds SENECA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
SENECA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,954 to it, the largest being ARTHUR W PHILLIPS TRUST UW ($18,048). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SENECA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $18,954 in grants to SENECA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SENECA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
ARTHUR W PHILLIPS TRUST UW is the largest funder on record, with $18,048 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SENECA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2020–2024), 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