Rhode Island · Nonprofit
SPECIAL SIGNAL FIRE ASSOCIATION
SPECIAL SIGNAL FIRE ASSOCIATION (Rhode Island) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,483 to it, the largest being THE LARRY V AND DOROTHY T EGAVIAN FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $119k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $59k
- Net assets
- $-129
What Special Signal Fire Association does
Mission
Provide relief for disaster victims
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provide relief and support to police, fireman and victims during time of disaster
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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 2019 to 2020, from $50k to $15k (−70%).
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 SPECIAL SIGNAL FIRE ASSOCIATION’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. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $5k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 SPECIAL SIGNAL FIRE ASSOCIATION’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
SPECIAL SIGNAL FIRE ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 57% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
95% of SPECIAL SIGNAL FIRE ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Rhode Island funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SPECIAL SIGNAL FIRE ASSOCIATION's revenue grew 36% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SPECIAL SIGNAL FIRE ASSOCIATION
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 Rhode Island
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPECIAL SIGNAL FIRE ASSOCIATION?
- SPECIAL SIGNAL FIRE ASSOCIATION (Rhode Island) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,483 to it, the largest being THE LARRY V AND DOROTHY T EGAVIAN FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIAL SIGNAL FIRE ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $59,483 in grants to SPECIAL SIGNAL FIRE ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL SIGNAL FIRE ASSOCIATION?
- THE LARRY V AND DOROTHY T EGAVIAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL SIGNAL FIRE ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 4 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