Alabama · Nonprofit
WINDERMERE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
WINDERMERE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,050 to it, the largest being THE BESSEMER NATIONAL GIFT FUND ($1,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Lake Martin Area United Waylocal
- The Leary Firefighters Foundationportfolio match
- Nextdoor Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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: 2019 22% · 2020 25% · 2021 22% · 2022 26% · 2023 23% · 2024 15% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $200 → $450.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 WINDERMERE 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.
How concentrated its funding is
WINDERMERE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 WINDERMERE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 67% — diversifying over time.
“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
76% of WINDERMERE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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.
- Lake Martin Area United WaylocalAL · funds 11 organizations near you
- The Leary Firefighters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nextdoor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pee Dee Electric Membership Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fm Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Awareness of Rappahannock Electric Charityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Lee Upham and Chester R Upham Jr Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Garver David B for Charity - Char Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Fire Safe Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 WINDERMERE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WINDERMERE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WINDERMERE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- WINDERMERE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,050 to it, the largest being THE BESSEMER NATIONAL GIFT FUND ($1,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WINDERMERE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $3,050 in grants to WINDERMERE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WINDERMERE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- THE BESSEMER NATIONAL GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WINDERMERE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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