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SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE MARINE VOL FIRE CO INC

SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE MARINE VOL FIRE CO INC (Virginia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,391 to it, the largest being THE CYRUS KATZEN FOUNDATION INC ($37,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$408k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$114k
Net assets
$2.1M
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Smith Mountain Lake Marine Vol Fire Co Inc does

Mission

Volunteer marine fire & rescue responsible for all fire, rescue and emergency medical services around 20,600 acre smith mountain lake. Also provide critical support services to land based counterparts in 3 counties.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Volunteer fire department that provides fire fighting, rescue operations, prevention services and safety programs on smith mountain lake, va and surrounding counties. Responded to 358 calls in 2025

    $277,791 spent$398,644 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $277,791.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($237k) Expenses 100 ($129k) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2018 Revenue 93 ($221k) Expenses 90 ($117k) Net assets 80 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 105 ($249k) Expenses 143 ($185k) Net assets 89 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 119 ($283k) Expenses 182 ($236k) Net assets 95 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 96 ($229k) Expenses 136 ($176k) Net assets 98 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 109 ($258k) Expenses 126 ($163k) Net assets 104 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 116 ($276k) Expenses 130 ($168k) Net assets 110 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 155 ($368k) Expenses 152 ($197k) Net assets 120 ($2.0M)2025 Revenue 172 ($408k) Expenses 234 ($303k) Net assets 126 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (172)Expenses (234)Net assets (126)Peer revenue range

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 $1.9M to $2.4M (+23%).

$1.6M
$1.3M
$1.5M
$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$1.9M
$2.4M
$2.5M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 42% · 2018 47% · 2019 42% · 2020 39% · 2021 51% · 2022 40% · 2023 34% · 2024 29% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE MARINE VOL FIRE CO INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$108k
’17
$104k
’18
$63k
’19
$48k
’20
$53k
’21
$95k
’22
$108k
’23
$171k
’24
$105k
’25
22
months of
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.

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Listed8991112891011
Joined·+4+1+4+1+0+4+1+4
No longer listed·31204303
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $6k.

4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE MARINE VOL FIRE CO 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

SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE MARINE VOL FIRE CO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

38% 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 SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE MARINE VOL FIRE CO INC.

33%
largest funder
82%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 65% · 2019 45% · 2020 83% · 2021 82% · 2022 59% · 2023 86% — 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

43% of SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE MARINE VOL FIRE CO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

63% of SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE MARINE VOL FIRE CO INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

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VA
MD
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE MARINE VOL FIRE CO INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin26% · top quartile
Months of reserve22.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 3%Fundraising 5%

Governance

50
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE MARINE VOL FIRE CO INC?
SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE MARINE VOL FIRE CO INC (Virginia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,391 to it, the largest being THE CYRUS KATZEN FOUNDATION INC ($37,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE MARINE VOL FIRE CO INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $114,391 in grants to SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE MARINE VOL FIRE CO INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE MARINE VOL FIRE CO INC?
THE CYRUS KATZEN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $37,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE MARINE VOL FIRE CO INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 11 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