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TRI COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT INC

TRI COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,000 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ($49,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$124k
Revenue FY2021
2
Funders on record
$98k
Grants received
$130k
Net assets
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($219k) Expenses 100 ($237k) Net assets 100 ($122k)2018 Revenue 119 ($261k) Expenses 82 ($195k) Net assets 165 ($200k)2019 Revenue 69 ($150k) Expenses 84 ($198k) Net assets 146 ($177k)2020 Revenue 60 ($132k) Expenses 67 ($159k) Net assets 126 ($154k)2021 Revenue 57 ($124k) Expenses 55 ($129k) Net assets 107 ($130k)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (57)Expenses (55)Net assets (107)

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
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 94% · 2018 90% · 2019 92% · 2020 86% · 2021 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$18k
’17
$66k
’18
−$48k
’19
−$26k
’20
−$5k
’21
0.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'18
total
The Onestar Foundationunclassified
$49k
funders
2

From the IRS filings of TRI COUNTY 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.

How concentrated its funding is

TRI COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund TRI COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.

50%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

TRI COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT INC draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 2 states in all.

DC
TX

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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 2 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like TRI COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Texas

Waller Volunteer Fire Department Inc86%Troup Volunteer Fire Department84%Briscoe Fire Dept83%Hico Volunteer Fire Department83%Pattison Area Volunteer Fire Department Inc82%Ponder Volunteer Fire Dept Inc81%Kendalia Volunteer Fire Department Inc81%View Volunteer Fire Dept81%

Nationally

Waller Volunteer Fire Department Inc86%Tri-County Fire Company85%Tri-Community Volunteer Fire Dept84%Troup Volunteer Fire Department84%Ellicott Creek Volunteer Fire Co83%Citizens Hose Company No 183%Briscoe Fire Dept83%Hico Volunteer Fire Department83%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 17%Fundraising 14%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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 TRI COUNTY 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 TRI COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
TRI COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,000 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ($49,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TRI COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $98,000 in grants to TRI COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.
Who is the largest funder of TRI COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC is the largest funder on record, with $49,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRI COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing