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WEST HAMBLEN COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT

WEST HAMBLEN COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$180k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$0
Net assets
$941k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What West Hamblen County Volunteer Fire Department does

Mission

To provide fire fighting,prevention and education services to citizens of west hamblen county.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. County volunteer fire department and related services.

    $173,136 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $173,136.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($141k) Expenses 100 ($150k) Net assets 100 ($574k)2018 Revenue 84 ($119k) Expenses 115 ($172k) Net assets 91 ($521k)2019 Revenue 87 ($123k) Expenses 86 ($128k) Net assets 90 ($516k)2020 Revenue 83 ($118k) Expenses 97 ($145k) Net assets 85 ($489k)2021 Revenue 87 ($124k) Expenses 102 ($153k) Net assets 80 ($459k)2022 Revenue 397 ($561k) Expenses 113 ($169k) Net assets 148 ($851k)2023 Revenue 206 ($291k) Expenses 130 ($195k) Net assets 165 ($947k)2024 Revenue 128 ($181k) Expenses 119 ($178k) Net assets 165 ($950k)2025 Revenue 128 ($180k) Expenses 126 ($189k) Net assets 164 ($941k)
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Revenue (128)Expenses (126)Net assets (164)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $468k to $856k (+83%).

$574k
$557k
$543k
$507k
$468k
$856k
$949k
$1.0M
$984k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 35% · 2018 44% · 2019 45% · 2020 47% · 2021 44% · 2022 89% · 2023 41% · 2024 42% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

68% of WEST HAMBLEN COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,485 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$8k
’17
−$53k
’18
−$5k
’19
−$27k
’20
−$30k
’21
$392k
’22
$96k
’23
$3k
’24
−$9k
’25
19
months of
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.

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Listed444444455
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+1+1+0
No longer listed·00000100
03Who funds it
04Its place in the field

Against its field

WEST HAMBLEN COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT is better cushioned than half of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve18.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like WEST HAMBLEN COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 4%Fundraising 5%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

85%

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 WEST HAMBLEN COUNTY 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 WEST HAMBLEN COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
WEST HAMBLEN COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WEST HAMBLEN COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to WEST HAMBLEN COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Who is the largest funder of WEST HAMBLEN COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WEST HAMBLEN COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing