Wisconsin · Nonprofit
Silver Creek Volunteer Fire Department Township of Sherman Inc
Silver Creek Volunteer Fire Department Township of Sherman Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,172 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($69,900). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $223k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $74k
- Net assets
- $774k
What Silver Creek Volunteer Fire Department Township of Sherman Inc does
Mission
The Organization is a volunteer fire department with the mission of preventing and fighting fires. It relies on donations and fundraisers to raise funds to finance the purchase of equipment and infrastructure to fulfill its mission in fire safety in the township of Sherman, Sheboygan County, WI, the village of Random Lake and the surrounding areas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization's exempt purpose of preventing and fighting fires was served by raising funds to finance the equipment needed for fighting fires.
$144,401 spent$17,319 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $144,401.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $726k to $782k (+8%).
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: 2019 4% · 2020 12% · 2021 15% · 2022 13% · 2023 12% · 2024 15% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of Silver Creek Volunteer Fire Department Township of Sherman 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. 0 of the last 7 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
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $11k → $13k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 Silver Creek Volunteer Fire Department Township of Sherman 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
Silver Creek Volunteer Fire Department Township of Sherman Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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
94% 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 Silver Creek Volunteer Fire Department Township of Sherman Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 61% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
94% of Silver Creek Volunteer Fire Department Township of Sherman 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 $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k 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.
Against its field
Silver Creek Volunteer Fire Department Township of Sherman Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
43%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Silver Creek Volunteer Fire Department Township of Sherman 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 Silver Creek Volunteer Fire Department Township of Sherman Inc?
- Silver Creek Volunteer Fire Department Township of Sherman Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,172 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($69,900). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Silver Creek Volunteer Fire Department Township of Sherman Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $74,172 in grants to Silver Creek Volunteer Fire Department Township of Sherman Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Silver Creek Volunteer Fire Department Township of Sherman Inc?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $69,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Silver Creek Volunteer Fire Department Township of Sherman Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2019–2025), 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