South Dakota · Nonprofit
TEA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
TEA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100 to it, the largest being LAND O'LAKES FOUNDATION ($100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $512k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $100
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Tea Volunteer Fire Department Inc does
Mission
Preservation and protection of life and property resulting from fire and other emergencies as may occur in the tea, south dakota area.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Responded to 380 fire and emergency calls in 2023 for the residents of the city of tea, townships of delapre, lavalley and perry. Provided fire prevention programs for the schools in the tea, south dakota area.
$367,785 spentof which $1,000 as grants$5,450 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $367,785.
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 2021 to 2022, from $784k to $994k (+27%).
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 91% · 2018 77% · 2019 94% · 2020 93% · 2021 82% · 2022 81% · 2023 52% · 2024 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of TEA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’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. 3 of the last 8 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.
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 TEA VOLUNTEER 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
TEA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, 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
TEA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like TEA VOLUNTEER 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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TEA VOLUNTEER 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 TEA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- TEA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100 to it, the largest being LAND O'LAKES FOUNDATION ($100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100 in grants to TEA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.
- Who is the largest funder of TEA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- LAND O'LAKES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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