Louisiana · Nonprofit
VILLE PLATTE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
VILLE PLATTE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Louisiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,500 to it, the largest being TC ENERGY FOUNDATION ($8,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $131k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $701k
What Ville Platte Volunteer Fire Department does
Mission
The purpose is to provide for, promote, and attend to fire protection and fire prevention awareness education to the city of ville platte and surrounding areas throughout the community
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
The purpose is to provide for, promote, and attend to fire protection and fire prevention awareness education to the city of ville platte and surrounding areas throughout the community
$50,289 spent$5,369 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $50,289.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $6k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 VILLE PLATTE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 funders by total. 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
VILLE PLATTE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% 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
41% 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 VILLE PLATTE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
VILLE PLATTE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
VILLE PLATTE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,854 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,854 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Government funding VILLE PLATTE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $793k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$793k
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 VILLE PLATTE 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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 VILLE PLATTE 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 VILLE PLATTE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- VILLE PLATTE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Louisiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,500 to it, the largest being TC ENERGY FOUNDATION ($8,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VILLE PLATTE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $14,500 in grants to VILLE PLATTE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VILLE PLATTE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- TC ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VILLE PLATTE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing