Iowa · Nonprofit
VAIL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
VAIL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being PELLA ROLSCREEN FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $281k
What Vail Volunteer Fire Department does
Mission
The mission of the Vail Volunteer Fire Department is to provide fire protection and also first responder services to a local community and rural area consisting of approximately 690 citizens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Volunteer fire department provides fire protection for the local community and various surrounding townships.
$52,941 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $52,941.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $251k to $281k (+12%).
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.
13% of VAIL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (85% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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 VAIL 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.
Where its funders are
100% of VAIL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
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
VAIL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,045 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,045 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like VAIL 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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VAIL 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 VAIL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- VAIL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being PELLA ROLSCREEN FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VAIL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to VAIL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT.
- Who is the largest funder of VAIL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- PELLA ROLSCREEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VAIL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing