North Carolina · Nonprofit
WATKINS COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
WATKINS COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,965 to it, the largest being WAKE ELECTRIC CARE INC ($14,465). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $576k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $607k
What Watkins Community Volunteer Fire Department Inc does
Mission
To protect, hinder, control, fight, and combat fires and other forms of threat to persons or property in the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The community was provided fire protection closer than would have otherwise been provided.
$277,529 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $277,529.
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 2023 to 2024, from $418k to $1.0M (+147%).
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 83% · 2019 85% · 2020 89% · 2021 97% · 2022 89% · 2023 82% · 2024 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of WATKINS COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’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. 2 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 $2k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of WATKINS COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER 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
WATKINS COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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 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
97% of WATKINS COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
WATKINS COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC has grown faster than three-quarters 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
Government funding WATKINS COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $593k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$373k
- Department of Agriculture$220k
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 WATKINS COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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 WATKINS COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER 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 WATKINS COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- WATKINS COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,965 to it, the largest being WAKE ELECTRIC CARE INC ($14,465). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WATKINS COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $14,965 in grants to WATKINS COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WATKINS COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- WAKE ELECTRIC CARE INC is the largest funder on record, with $14,465 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WATKINS COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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