North Carolina · Nonprofit
SILVER LAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
SILVER LAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,616 to it, the largest being Points of Light Foundation ($70,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SILVER LAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,719 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,719 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Wilson County Partnership for Children Inclocal
- Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Incportfolio match
- Nextdoor Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 87% · 2018 91% · 2019 93% · 2020 91% · 2021 83% · 2022 83% · 2023 89% · 2024 79% · 2025 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of SILVER LAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SILVER LAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 funders by total. 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 LAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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
100% 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 LAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.
“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
SILVER LAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Wilson County Partnership for Children InclocalNC · funds 25 organizations near you
- Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nextdoor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mid-South Resource Conservation and Development Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fm Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pee Dee Electric Membership Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- US Wind Force Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leary Firefighters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary Gk Fox Foundation 15-5006007portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Overlake Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gvec Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scott Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding SILVER LAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $267k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$267k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SILVER LAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SILVER LAKE VOLUNTEER 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SILVER LAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- SILVER LAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,616 to it, the largest being Points of Light Foundation ($70,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SILVER LAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $96,616 in grants to SILVER LAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.
- Who is the largest funder of SILVER LAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- Points of Light Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SILVER LAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing