Texas · Nonprofit
Wichita West Volunteer Fire Dept
Wichita West Volunteer Fire Dept (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,653 to it, the largest being Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation ($56,663). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $144k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $213k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Wichita West Volunteer Fire Dept does
Mission
The organization provides emergency response services in unincorporated areas where such services are not provided by state or local governments.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization provided fire rescue and medical services to citizens living in the areas served by the organization. Under a formal mutual aid agreement, the organization also provided similar services (in whole or in part) to citizens living in other areas when assistance was requested by similar organizations serving those areas. The organization also conducted internal training to insure safety of volunteer firefighters in areas related to the performance of their duties enroute to or actively working various fire and emergency calls. The organization also conducted internal training in areas related to the personal well-being and health of volunteers actively engaged in fire, rescue and medical service activities.
$226,994 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $226,994.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.3M to $1.9M (+47%).
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: 2017 53% · 2018 46% · 2019 35% · 2020 72% · 2022 54% · 2023 6% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
44% of Wichita West Volunteer Fire Dept’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 9 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 narrowed from 6 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $39k → $43k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 Wichita West Volunteer Fire Dept’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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
Wichita West Volunteer Fire Dept has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
27% 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 Wichita West Volunteer Fire Dept.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 44% · 2021 41% · 2022 74% · 2023 58% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
33% of Wichita West Volunteer Fire Dept's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of Wichita West Volunteer Fire Dept's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k 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
Wichita West Volunteer Fire Dept is better cushioned than half of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Wichita West Volunteer Fire Dept
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 Wichita West Volunteer Fire Dept: 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 Wichita West Volunteer Fire Dept?
- Wichita West Volunteer Fire Dept (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,653 to it, the largest being Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation ($56,663). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Wichita West Volunteer Fire Dept have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $212,653 in grants to Wichita West Volunteer Fire Dept, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wichita West Volunteer Fire Dept?
- Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $56,663 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wichita West Volunteer Fire Dept find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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