New York · Nonprofit
SKANEATELES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTME
SKANEATELES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTME (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,750 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($130,250). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $387k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $202k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Skaneateles Volunteer Fire Departme does
Mission
The department provides fire protection and emergency service for the residents of the village and town of skaneateles. When called upon, the department will also respond to surrounding communities. The department is staffed completely by unpaid volunteers who are trained as fire fighting and emergency service professionals. Members conduct fund raising activities to provide revenue for the purchase and maintenance of fire fighting equipment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The program service provided by the Skaneateles Volunteer Fire Department during the fiscal year january 1, 2025 to december 31, 2025 achieved the following: fire calls 445 (includes structure fires, alarms, flooded basements, storm related damage) there are 87 members in the skaneateles volunteer fire company. In addition to responding to total calls and training/drill sessions, many hours were spent in monthly meetings,committee meetings, administrative work and general fire department maintenance.
$245,811 spent$148,052 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $245,811.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.9M to $2.0M (+6%).
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.
22% of SKANEATELES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTME’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. 5 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 narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $2k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 SKANEATELES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTME’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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
SKANEATELES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTME leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 SKANEATELES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTME.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2019 100% · 2020 70% · 2021 92% · 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
89% of SKANEATELES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTME'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 $22k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $180k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SKANEATELES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTME 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
Organizations like SKANEATELES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTME
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SKANEATELES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTME?
- SKANEATELES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTME (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,750 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($130,250). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SKANEATELES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTME have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $201,750 in grants to SKANEATELES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTME, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SKANEATELES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTME?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $130,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SKANEATELES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTME find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 8 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