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Wimberley Volunteer Fire Department

Wimberley Volunteer Fire Department (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $53,000 to it, the largest being HARRY L WILLETT FOUNDATION C O BOYD RYAN ($53,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2019
$35k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$53k
Net assets
$0
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Wimberley Volunteer Fire Department does

Mission

Fire fighting and prevention and rescue and emergency medical services

As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.

Program

The VFD serves the City of Wimberley and the surrounding rural areas. The VFD responds to numerous emergency incidents as 1st Responder in addition to fire prevention and protection duties.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($567k) Expenses 100 ($506k) Net assets 100 ($401k)2018 Revenue 113 ($638k) Expenses 110 ($558k) Net assets 123 ($491k)2019 Revenue 6 ($35k) Expenses 64 ($325k) Net assets 0 ($0)
201720182019
Revenue (6)Expenses (64)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $530k to $0 (−100%).

$455k
$530k
$0
201720182019
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$61k
’17
$81k
’18
−$290k
’19
6.9
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.

20172018
Listed77
Joined·+3
No longer listed·3
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $40k → $6k.

Funder
'18
'19
'22
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of Wimberley Volunteer Fire Department’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

Wimberley Volunteer Fire Department draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.

CO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’22
Texas out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Wimberley Volunteer Fire Department

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

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

98%

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 Wimberley 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 Wimberley Volunteer Fire Department?
Wimberley Volunteer Fire Department (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $53,000 to it, the largest being HARRY L WILLETT FOUNDATION C O BOYD RYAN ($53,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Wimberley Volunteer Fire Department have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $53,000 in grants to Wimberley Volunteer Fire Department, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Wimberley Volunteer Fire Department?
HARRY L WILLETT FOUNDATION C O BOYD RYAN is the largest funder on record, with $53,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Wimberley Volunteer Fire Department 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), 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