South Dakota · Nonprofit
VERMILLION RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT
VERMILLION RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT (South Dakota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,632 to it, the largest being Nextdoor Foundation ($1,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $279k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $417k
What Vermillion Rural Fire Department does
Mission
The purpose shall be the preservation and protection of life and property from and during such fires and man made or natural disasters as may occur in the city of vermillion or vicinity
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fire prevention and protection
$208,682 spent99% of program spendingFire prevention and protection
$1,156 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $209,838.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $545k to $367k (−33%).
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: 2019 6% · 2021 2% · 2022 53% · 2023 44% · 2024 48% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of VERMILLION RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $11.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 VERMILLION RURAL 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
VERMILLION RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 95% · 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
VERMILLION RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32 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
VERMILLION RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,208 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,208 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like VERMILLION RURAL 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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 VERMILLION RURAL 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 VERMILLION RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- VERMILLION RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT (South Dakota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,632 to it, the largest being Nextdoor Foundation ($1,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VERMILLION RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,632 in grants to VERMILLION RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERMILLION RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- Nextdoor Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERMILLION RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 3 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