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TIBURON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT

TIBURON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,950 to it, the largest being WINSLOW FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2020
$5k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$11k
Net assets
$93k
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Tiburon Volunteer Fire Department does

Mission

Support tiburon fire department by purchasing equipment for the department and by providing fire education and fire prevention training and expenses.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.

Program

Support tiburon fire department by providing fire education and fire prevention training when needed.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($46k) Expenses 100 ($21k) Net assets 100 ($96k)2018 Revenue 92 ($42k) Expenses 124 ($26k) Net assets 117 ($112k)2019 Revenue 51 ($23k) Expenses 183 ($38k) Net assets 101 ($97k)2020 Revenue 11 ($5k) Expenses 45 ($9k) Net assets 97 ($93k)
2017201820192020
Revenue (11)Expenses (45)Net assets (97)

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $96k to $112k (+17%).

$96k
$112k
$97k
$93k
2017201820192020
Total assets

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
’17
$16k
’18
−$15k
’19
−$4k
’20
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $200.

From the IRS filings of TIBURON 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

TIBURON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

46%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 83% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

TIBURON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.

NY
CA
MO
HI

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California 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

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TIBURON 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 TIBURON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
TIBURON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,950 to it, the largest being WINSLOW FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TIBURON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $10,950 in grants to TIBURON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TIBURON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
WINSLOW FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TIBURON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 6 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