North Carolina · Nonprofit
ST STEPHENS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
ST STEPHENS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $295,000 to it, the largest being E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation ($295,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $295k
- Net assets
- $7.0M
What St Stephens Fire Department Inc does
Mission
Department contracts with catawba county nc to provide fire medical and emergency services to the st stephens fire district
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Department contracts with catawba county nc to lessen the burden on local government by providing fire medical and emergency services to the st stephens fire district
$1,296,599 spent$1,989,776 earned by the program100% of program spendingDepartment has purchased fire safety house in order to teach fire safety have started foundraiser solely to maintain and utilize fire safety house
$6 spent$125 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,296,605.
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 2024 to 2025, from $6.2M to $7.0M (+13%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 97% · 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 98% · 2021 99% · 2022 96% · 2023 130% · 2024 95% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of ST STEPHENS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (69% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Greg Whitener
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $45k → $30k.
From the IRS filings of ST STEPHENS FIRE DEPARTMENT 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.
Where its funders are
ST STEPHENS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
ST STEPHENS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ST STEPHENS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 ST STEPHENS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: 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 ST STEPHENS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- ST STEPHENS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $295,000 to it, the largest being E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation ($295,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST STEPHENS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $295,000 in grants to ST STEPHENS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST STEPHENS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $295,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST STEPHENS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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