Vermont · Nonprofit
Thetford Volunteer Fire Department
Thetford Volunteer Fire Department (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,411 to it, the largest being NARA FUND INC ($15,230). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $491k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Thetford Volunteer Fire Department does
Mission
Fire protection and rescue services
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provision of fire protection and emergency rescue services to the Town of Thetford, VT and neighboring communities. Several thousand hours of volunteer service were performed by the organization's members in responding to emergency calls, providing education to the public, conducting fundraising activities, and in maintaining vehicles, equipment, building and grounds. A Junior Firefighter program was also established.
$354,230 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $354,230.
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 2020 to 2021, from $920k to $1.1M (+21%).
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: 2020 31% · 2021 8% · 2022 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of Thetford Volunteer Fire Department’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $26.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Thetford 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Thetford Volunteer Fire Department leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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 94% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
100% of Thetford Volunteer Fire Department's grant income comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $181 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
Thetford Volunteer Fire Department has grown faster 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 Thetford Volunteer Fire Department receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $212k on record — $118k federal, $94k state.
- Department of Homeland Security$118k
- Emergency Medical Services$52k
- Public Health Preparedness$15k
- Other Contr and 3rd Pty Serv$11k
- Other Pers Serv$9k
- Other Grants$8k
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 Thetford 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Thetford 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 Thetford Volunteer Fire Department?
- Thetford Volunteer Fire Department (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,411 to it, the largest being NARA FUND INC ($15,230). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Thetford Volunteer Fire Department have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15,411 in grants to Thetford Volunteer Fire Department, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Thetford Volunteer Fire Department?
- NARA FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,230 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Thetford Volunteer Fire Department find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 2 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