Louisiana · Nonprofit
Simmesport Volunteer Fire Department
Simmesport Volunteer Fire Department (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $151k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $229k
What Simmesport Volunteer Fire Department does
Mission
We operate for the purpose of providing fire protection for homes, businesses, and everyone within the fire departments geographical limits.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provided fire protection for homes, businesses, and everyone within the fire departments geographical limits.
$137,525 spent$150,982 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $137,525.
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.
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 $1.7M to $902k (−48%).
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: 2024 16% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of Simmesport Volunteer Fire Department’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Against its field
Simmesport Volunteer Fire Department's revenue grew 31% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Simmesport Volunteer Fire Department
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In Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Town of Simmesport · exempt
- Town of Simmesport · exempt
- Town of Simmesport · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Simmesport Volunteer Fire Department: 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 Simmesport Volunteer Fire Department?
- Simmesport Volunteer Fire Department (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Simmesport Volunteer Fire Department have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to Simmesport Volunteer Fire Department.
- Who is the largest funder of Simmesport Volunteer Fire Department?
- FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Simmesport Volunteer Fire Department find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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