Connecticut · Nonprofit
SHARON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
SHARON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $698,436 to it, the largest being WALTER AND PHYLLIS ANN BORTEN FOUNDATION ($183,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $715k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $698k
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Sharon Fire Department Inc does
Mission
To provide volunteer fire and ambulance services to the people of sharon, connecticut and surrounding towns through mutual aid. Maintenance and training essential to achieve that purpose.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide volunteer fire and ambulance services to the people of sharon, connecticut and surrounding towns through mutual aid. Maintenance and training essential to achieve that purpose.
$879,679 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $879,679.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $1.6M to $2.6M (+55%).
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 28% · 2018 12% · 2019 40% · 2020 36% · 2021 26% · 2022 21% · 2023 23% · 2024 34% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of SHARON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $6k → $127k.
3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 SHARON 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
SHARON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 67% · 2019 87% · 2020 74% · 2021 66% · 2022 38% · 2023 28% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
45% of SHARON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
55% of SHARON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $138k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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.
Against its field
SHARON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SHARON 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 SHARON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- SHARON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $698,436 to it, the largest being WALTER AND PHYLLIS ANN BORTEN FOUNDATION ($183,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHARON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $698,436 in grants to SHARON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHARON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- WALTER AND PHYLLIS ANN BORTEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $183,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHARON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 19 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