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WHITESVILLE RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT DBA CENTRAL BERKELEY FIRE & EMS

WHITESVILLE RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT DBA CENTRAL BERKELEY FIRE & EMS (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,073 to it, the largest being BERKELEY ELECTRIC TRUST ($9,073). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$4.4M
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$9k
Grants received
$2.0M
Net assets
0/1 repeat funders

Against its field

WHITESVILLE RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT DBA CENTRAL BERKELEY FIRE & EMS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 416 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 416 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($718k) Expenses 100 ($592k) Net assets 100 ($45k)2018 Revenue 132 ($948k) Expenses 104 ($612k) Net assets 853 ($380k)2019 Revenue 229 ($1.6M) Expenses 116 ($686k) Net assets 3013 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 273 ($2.0M) Expenses 342 ($2.0M) Net assets 3056 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 341 ($2.4M) Expenses 444 ($2.6M) Net assets 2655 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 732 ($5.3M) Expenses 648 ($3.8M) Net assets 5859 ($2.6M)2024 Revenue 500 ($3.6M) Expenses 696 ($4.1M) Net assets 4679 ($2.1M)2025 Revenue 612 ($4.4M) Expenses 755 ($4.5M) Net assets 4526 ($2.0M)
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Revenue (612)Expenses (755)Net assets (4526)Peer revenue range

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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 13% · 2019 10% · 2021 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

1% of WHITESVILLE RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT DBA CENTRAL BERKELEY FIRE & EMS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (71% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 856 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$127k
17
$335k
18
$962k
19
$64k
21
$178k
22
$1.4M
23
$526k
24
$68k
25
4.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of WHITESVILLE RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT DBA CENTRAL BERKELEY FIRE & EMS’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.

Where its funders are

100% of WHITESVILLE RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT DBA CENTRAL BERKELEY FIRE & EMS's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.

SC

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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like WHITESVILLE RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT DBA CENTRAL BERKELEY FIRE & EMS

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In South Carolina

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WHITESVILLE RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT DBA CENTRAL BERKELEY FIRE & EMS: 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 WHITESVILLE RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT DBA CENTRAL BERKELEY FIRE & EMS?
WHITESVILLE RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT DBA CENTRAL BERKELEY FIRE & EMS (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,073 to it, the largest being BERKELEY ELECTRIC TRUST ($9,073). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WHITESVILLE RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT DBA CENTRAL BERKELEY FIRE & EMS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $9,073 in grants to WHITESVILLE RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT DBA CENTRAL BERKELEY FIRE & EMS.
Who is the largest funder of WHITESVILLE RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT DBA CENTRAL BERKELEY FIRE & EMS?
BERKELEY ELECTRIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $9,073 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WHITESVILLE RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT DBA CENTRAL BERKELEY FIRE & EMS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing