Maine · Nonprofit
SOMERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
SOMERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,500 to it, the largest being STEPHEN & TABITHA KING FOUNDATION INC ($6,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $131k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $238k
What Somerville Volunteer Fire Department does
Mission
Fire protection services for the town of somerville and mutual aid communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Fire protection services for the town of somerville and mutual aid communities.
$84,197 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $84,197.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $124k to $192k (+55%).
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.
100% of SOMERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
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 SOMERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’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.
Where its funders are
SOMERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 1 state 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.
Against its field
SOMERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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
Government funding SOMERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $597k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$597k
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 SOMERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOMERVILLE 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 SOMERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- SOMERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,500 to it, the largest being STEPHEN & TABITHA KING FOUNDATION INC ($6,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOMERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,500 in grants to SOMERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT.
- Who is the largest funder of SOMERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- STEPHEN & TABITHA KING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOMERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 2023–2025), 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