Kentucky · Nonprofit
W R CASTLE VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE
W R CASTLE VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE (Kentucky) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,076 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $106k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $237k
What W R Castle Volunteer Fire and Rescue does
Mission
Provide fire and rescue and emt services
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Structure fires, auto accidents, provides emt services, helpwith natural disasters, and assist local law enforcement when necessary.
$69,749 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $69,749.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $107k to $344k (+220%).
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: 2018 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of W R CASTLE VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $22.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 W R CASTLE VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE’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
W R CASTLE VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 W R CASTLE VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
100% of W R CASTLE VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
W R CASTLE VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like W R CASTLE VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE
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 Kentucky
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for W R CASTLE VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE: 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 W R CASTLE VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE?
- W R CASTLE VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE (Kentucky) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,076 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does W R CASTLE VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,076 in grants to W R CASTLE VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of W R CASTLE VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like W R CASTLE VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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