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SOUTH LEE COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT

SOUTH LEE COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being FAMILY OFFICE FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$199k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
$644k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What South Lee County Volunteer Fire Dept does

Mission

The south lee county volunteer fire department's primary purpose is to provide fire protection and emergency services to the public in south lee county

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Fire fighting and emergency response for south lee county, texas

    $166,194 spentof which $1,973 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $166,194.

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 ($90k) Expenses 100 ($68k) Net assets 100 ($504k)2018 Revenue 142 ($127k) Expenses 117 ($79k) Net assets 110 ($552k)2019 Revenue 125 ($112k) Expenses 156 ($106k) Net assets 111 ($559k)2020 Revenue 102 ($92k) Expenses 179 ($121k) Net assets 105 ($529k)2021 Revenue 88 ($79k) Expenses 154 ($104k) Net assets 100 ($504k)2022 Revenue 177 ($159k) Expenses 152 ($103k) Net assets 111 ($560k)2023 Revenue 195 ($175k) Expenses 213 ($144k) Net assets 117 ($591k)2024 Revenue 180 ($161k) Expenses 175 ($118k) Net assets 126 ($633k)2025 Revenue 222 ($199k) Expenses 278 ($188k) Net assets 128 ($644k)
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Revenue (222)Expenses (278)Net assets (128)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 2021 to 2022, from $504k to $560k (+11%).

$504k
$552k
$559k
$529k
$504k
$560k
$591k
$633k
$644k
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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 2% · 2018 41% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 3% · 2022 1% · 2023 7% · 2024 1% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

23% of SOUTH LEE COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,485 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$22k
’17
$48k
’18
$6k
’19
−$29k
’20
−$25k
’21
$56k
’22
$31k
’23
$43k
’24
$10k
’25
16
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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Listed666666666
Joined·+1+2+0+1+1+0+0+0
No longer listed·12011000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $5k.

Funder
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'20
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total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of SOUTH LEE COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT’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

SOUTH LEE COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.

CA

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

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’20
Texas out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SOUTH LEE COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT is better cushioned than half of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · below the median
Months of reserve15.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster 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

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

35
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

85%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOUTH LEE COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT?
SOUTH LEE COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being FAMILY OFFICE FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOUTH LEE COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to SOUTH LEE COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTH LEE COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT?
FAMILY OFFICE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTH LEE COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 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