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Fire and rescue in Clarke County

Clarke County has had four volunteer fire companies. One failed to reach a house fire near its own station in 2010, was audited, and was dissolved by a judge in 2013. Clarke then stood up its own department in 2014. This is the reported record of the three surviving companies.

Three companies at a glance

John H. Enders Fire Company & Rescue Squad

Most recent reported revenue
$498,712 FY 2024
Median annual revenue, 2011–2025
$383,104
Years reported spending more than they took in
5 of 14 years reported

Boyce Volunteer Fire Company

Most recent reported revenue
$381,926 FY 2024
Median annual revenue, 2011–2025
$345,042
Years reported spending more than they took in
7 of 14 years reported

Blue Ridge Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company

Most recent reported revenue
$279,149 FY 2025
Median annual revenue, 2011–2025
$247,023
Years reported spending more than they took in
6 of 15 years reported

Figures come from each company’s IRS Form 990 returns, filed under its legal name. The full year-by-year comparison, source records, and downloadable data are further down this page.

The companies and county department

Enders, Boyce and Blue Ridge remain in service. Shenandoah Farms was dissolved in 2013, and the county established its own department in 2014.

Berryville

John H. Enders Fire Company & Rescue Squad

The oldest of the three, and the one whose name belongs to a person.

Organized
March 1900
Station
9 South Buckmarsh Street, Berryville
Rescue squad
1962
Volunteers in 2019
64 — 43 operational, 21 associate
Rescue coverage
The whole county, in the company's account

The company dates the start of fire service in Berryville to 1883, when the town council bought a horse-drawn hook-and-ladder from a Philadelphia maker. The Berryville Fire Department was organized in March 1900 by the town council and by John H. Enders, a furniture dealer and undertaker.

SourceJohn H. Enders Fire Company & Rescue Squad

Enders died on 23 June 1933. The company attaches its renaming to his death, though it does not date the renaming itself. Two years later a firehouse went up on East Main Street near the Enders funeral home; the company's account gives no street number, so which building that was is not settled here. By 1958 that East Main building had become town and police offices, and at some point the company moved to a four-bay firehouse on South Buckmarsh Street. Its own history does not say what year.

SourceJohn H. Enders Fire Company & Rescue Squad

Before 1962 the company describes years of helping the local Red Cross move the sick and injured to hospital in a station wagon. The rescue squad formed in 1962, and the combined name followed. “The rescue squad served the whole county,” the company writes, “and as calls grew so did the need for an additional ambulance.” That is the company's account of what its squad covered then; nothing here describes where any company answers calls today. Which Red Cross chapter, and which hospital, the account does not say.

SourceJohn H. Enders Fire Company & Rescue Squad

Boyce

Boyce Volunteer Fire Company

Began in a rented garage bay with a siren you could hear for miles.

Organized
17 July 1959
Station dedicated
23 October 1960
Ambulance transport
2000
Volunteers in 2019
32 — 26 operational, 6 associate

On 17 July 1959 the Boyce Volunteer Fire Company began work in leased space at Garland Brown's service station on Route 340, with a five-horsepower siren that, the company says, could be heard for miles.

SourceBoyce Volunteer Fire Company

The company dates the dedication of its own station to 23 October 1960. A 2021 Clarke Monthly feature reports a fire hall opening in March 1961. Those may be two milestones or two accounts of one; both are recorded here and neither is treated as the other.

SourcesBoyce Volunteer Fire CompanyClarke Monthly, April 16, 2021

Medical capability arrived in stages. The company began non-transport medical response in 1992, decided to buy an ambulance in 1999, and began carrying patients in 2000 — forty-one years after it organized. That is a statement about one company's own capability and nothing more. The Berryville rescue squad dates from 1962 and, in that company's own account, served the whole county; how the two companies divided calls between them is not described anywhere here.

SourcesBoyce Volunteer Fire CompanyJohn H. Enders Fire Company & Rescue Squad

In September 2018 the company voted to withdraw from the Clarke County Fire and Rescue Association, and a letter signed by nine members went out on 13 September. Its president told the Winchester Star the split was over differing approaches to working with the county, particularly budgeting.

SourceThe Winchester Star, October 25, 2018

Bluemont; 131 Retreat Road

Blue Ridge Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company

Organized after a fire in which a member of the community was killed.

Organized
1975
Chartered
1976
Station dedicated
12 June 1982
Volunteers in 2019
36 — 24 operational, 12 associate

Blue Ridge is the one company whose own history says plainly why it exists. After a fire in 1975 in which a member of the community was killed, a group of men and women met in an old highway department building to discuss establishing a fire department. The person who died is not named in that account and is not named here.

SourceBlue Ridge Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company

The company was chartered in 1976, with the Lord Fairfax Planning District and firefighters from surrounding communities involved. In 1977 the Virginia Department of Transportation leased it the building it had been meeting in, and the land under it — a lease, not a sale. The IRS recognized its exemption in June 1979.

SourcesBlue Ridge Volunteer Fire and Rescue CompanyTaxExemptWorld, from the IRS Business Master File

By 1981 the company had funds enough to begin building. Members dedicated the new station on 12 June 1982, seven years after that first meeting.

SourceBlue Ridge Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company

Howellsville Road, on the Warren County side

Shenandoah Farms Volunteer Fire Department

The fourth company, and the one that is no longer there.

When it began
Not established
Counted among four companies
late 1970s or early 1980s
Dissolved by joint resolution
18 June 2013
Court order confirming dissolution
August 2013

For part of this period Clarke County had four companies, not three. The fourth was Shenandoah Farms, and the reason we know it was counted among them is a named recollection: Matt Hoff, then president of the Boyce company and chairman of the county's fire commission, told the Winchester Star in 2018 that the county's Fire and Rescue Association formed in the late 1970s or early 1980s, when there were four volunteer fire companies in Clarke County, Shenandoah Farms among them. The supervisors wanted, he said, “one unifying voice rather than deal with four individual fire companies.”

SourceThe Winchester Star, October 25, 2018

When the company began has not been established. It is absent from the current IRS master file and from the federal revocation list, and none of the accounts reviewed here gives a founding year.

SourceThe Winchester Star, October 25, 2018

How it ended is the best-documented part. Reporting at the time says community dissatisfaction surfaced in 2010, after the company failed to respond adequately to a house fire near its own station, and that complaints about financial irregularities led the two counties it served to commission an audit. That audit was reported complete in June 2011, its author classifying what it found as either malfeasance or misfeasance. Both counties withheld public funds until Warren County's fire department took over reviewing and approving invoices, while money the company raised itself stayed outside county oversight. A law-enforcement investigation followed; as of a June 2013 report it had produced no criminal charges. No individual is named in any of that reporting, and none is named here.

SourceThe Northern Virginia Daily, June 17, 2013

The boards of supervisors of Warren and Clarke counties adopted a joint resolution, at separate meetings the same afternoon, dissolving the company and directing Warren County's fire department to take the station and cover an area “that spans both counties.” County attorneys went to court to preserve engines bought with public money. The two later accounts date the resolution to 18 June 2013, and the state firefighters' association dates career staffing at the station from that day, around the clock into November 2013; by September 2014 that had settled to weekdays, with volunteers covering the rest.

SourcesThe Northern Virginia Daily, June 17, 2013The Northern Virginia Daily, August 13, 2013Virginia State Firefighters Association, September 22, 2014

In August 2013 a judge of the Clarke County Circuit Court signed an order confirming the dissolution and appointing a receiver to wind up the company's affairs. No one from the former company appeared to contest it.

SourceThe Northern Virginia Daily, August 13, 2013

Berryville, and where else they are needed

The county's own firefighters

Clarke answers calls with volunteers, county staff, and a company payroll of its own.

County department created
2014
County staff in 2019
7 full-time, 13 part-time
County staff now
16 full-time, 14 part-time
Volunteers in 2019
132 county-wide — 93 operational, 39 associate

Clarke County describes itself as served by three volunteer fire and rescue companies, with county-employed professional firefighters and EMTs alongside them. In 2019 it counted 132 volunteers across the three companies and 20 paid staff; it now states 30.

SourcesClarke County, VirginiaVirginia Association of Counties, July 2019

In 2014 the Board of Supervisors created the Clarke County Department of Fire, EMS and Emergency Management, with a director running day-to-day operations, supervising staff and overseeing the budget. By July 2019 the county described itself as employing seven full-time and thirteen part-time professional firefighters and EMTs alongside its volunteers, and as having applied for five more through the federal SAFER grant program.

SourceVirginia Association of Counties, July 2019

The county now states that it employs sixteen full-time and fourteen part-time professional firefighters and EMTs. Set against the 2019 figures, full-time county staffing has more than doubled, from seven to sixteen, and the combined head count has gone from twenty to thirty. These are counts of people, not payroll dollars: no source here gives what any of it costs. What the two statements also do not give is a first hire, and the 2014 department is the earliest fixed point on this page.

SourcesClarke County, VirginiaVirginia Association of Counties, July 2019

The volunteers are counted too. As of 31 March 2019 the county recorded 132 volunteers across the three companies — 93 who ran emergency calls and 39 associate members handling administration and fundraising. Boyce separately says its own career staff are paid mainly from the company's fundraising and donations. That is a different employer from the county, and those people are not counted in the county's figures here.

SourcesVirginia Association of Counties, July 2019Boyce Volunteer Fire Company

Fire and rescue timeline

Key dates in the companies’ histories and the development of the county department. Conflicting dates are noted.

  1. 1883Berryville

    The Berryville town council buys a horse-drawn hook-and-ladder from a Philadelphia maker. The company dates the start of fire service in the town to this purchase.

    SourceJohn H. Enders Fire Company & Rescue Squad

  2. March 1900Enders

    The town council and John H. Enders organize the Berryville Fire Department.

    SourceJohn H. Enders Fire Company & Rescue Squad

  3. 23 June 1933Enders

    John H. Enders dies in Berryville. The company attaches its renaming to his death.

    SourceJohn H. Enders Fire Company & Rescue Squad

  4. 1935Enders

    A firehouse is built on East Main Street, near the Enders funeral home.

    SourceJohn H. Enders Fire Company & Rescue Squad

  5. 1958Enders

    The East Main building comes into use as town and police offices.

    SourceJohn H. Enders Fire Company & Rescue Squad

  6. 17 July 1959Boyce

    The Boyce company begins in leased space at a Route 340 service station, with a five-horsepower siren.

    SourceBoyce Volunteer Fire Company

  7. 23 October 1960Boyce

    The company dedicates its station. A later news feature reports a fire hall opening in March 1961; both dates stand.

    SourcesBoyce Volunteer Fire CompanyClarke Monthly, April 16, 2021

  8. 1962Enders

    A rescue squad forms and the combined name is adopted, after years of moving the sick and injured for the Red Cross in a station wagon. In the company's account the squad served the whole county.

    SourceJohn H. Enders Fire Company & Rescue Squad

  9. 1975Blue Ridge

    After a fire in which a member of the community is killed, men and women meet in an old highway department building to discuss a fire department.

    SourceBlue Ridge Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company

  10. 1976Blue Ridge

    The company is chartered.

    SourceBlue Ridge Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company

  11. 1977Blue Ridge

    The Virginia Department of Transportation leases the company its building and the land under it.

    SourceBlue Ridge Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company

  12. June 1979Blue Ridge

    The IRS recognises the company's exemption.

    SourceTaxExemptWorld, from the IRS Business Master File

  13. late 1970s or early 1980sCounty

    The Clarke County Fire and Rescue Association forms, when there are four volunteer companies in the county — Shenandoah Farms among them.

    SourceThe Winchester Star, October 25, 2018

  14. 12 June 1982Blue Ridge

    Members dedicate the new Blue Ridge station.

    SourceBlue Ridge Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company

  15. 1992Boyce

    Boyce begins non-transport medical response.

    SourceBoyce Volunteer Fire Company

  16. 2000Boyce

    Boyce begins carrying patients, forty-one years after the company organized.

    SourceBoyce Volunteer Fire Company

  17. 2010Shenandoah Farms

    Dissatisfaction surfaces after the company fails to respond adequately to a house fire near its own station.

    SourceThe Northern Virginia Daily, June 17, 2013

  18. June 2011Shenandoah Farms

    An audit commissioned by the two counties is completed. Its author classifies what it found as malfeasance or misfeasance. Both counties withhold public funds pending outside review of invoices.

    SourceThe Northern Virginia Daily, June 17, 2013

  19. 18 June 2013Shenandoah Farms

    Warren and Clarke supervisors adopt a joint resolution dissolving the company, dated to this day by the two later accounts. Paid Warren County crews take the station and staff it around the clock.

    SourcesThe Northern Virginia Daily, June 17, 2013The Northern Virginia Daily, August 13, 2013Virginia State Firefighters Association, September 22, 2014

  20. August 2013Shenandoah Farms

    A Clarke County Circuit Court judge signs an order confirming the dissolution and appointing a receiver.

    SourceThe Northern Virginia Daily, August 13, 2013

  21. November 2013Shenandoah Farms

    Round-the-clock career staffing at the station ends; by September 2014 it is weekdays, with volunteers covering the rest.

    SourceVirginia State Firefighters Association, September 22, 2014

  22. 2014County

    The Board of Supervisors creates the Clarke County Department of Fire, EMS and Emergency Management.

    SourceVirginia Association of Counties, July 2019

  23. 13 September 2018Boyce

    The Boyce company withdraws from the Fire and Rescue Association in a letter signed by nine members, over differing approaches to working with the county.

    SourceThe Winchester Star, October 25, 2018

  24. July 2019County

    The county describes seven full-time and thirteen part-time paid firefighters and EMTs, 132 volunteers across three companies, and an application for five more career staff.

    SourceVirginia Association of Counties, July 2019

  25. September 2026County

    The county states it is served by three volunteer companies and employs sixteen full-time and fourteen part-time professional firefighters and EMTs.

    SourceClarke County, Virginia

Gaps in the record

Three of the five accounts here are the companies' own histories of themselves. An institution is a reasonable witness to what it says about its own past, and none of these has been set against a charter, a minute book or a contemporary newspaper.

Only one company describes an area it covered: the Enders company writes that its rescue squad served the whole county, which is its account of the past and not a statement about where anyone answers calls today. Present-day response areas and mutual-aid boundaries are not described anywhere on this page.

The Shenandoah Farms audit and the court order have not been read. What this page has is dated reporting about both, which is a weaker thing. No individual is named in connection with any financial irregularity.

Nothing here surveys fire protection across the whole county, and none of these accounts sets out to. The 1883 hook-and-ladder is the earliest apparatus these accounts record.

Sources

The company's own account of itself

History

John H. Enders Fire Company & Rescue Squad

An institution writing its own history. No charter, minute book or contemporary newspaper has been read against it.

The company's own account of itself

About

Boyce Volunteer Fire Company

An institution writing its own history. The Town of Boyce newsletter repeats these dates and draws them from here, so it is not a second witness.

The company's own account of itself, credited to Rick Jyachosky

About Us

Blue Ridge Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company

An institution writing its own history. The company's own account names its 1976 charter as Blue Ridge Fire Company Inc., which differs slightly from both the corporate name in the IRS record and the name the company uses today.

News reporting an official's recollection2018-10-25

Official: Differing approaches led to Boyce fire company's withdrawal

The Winchester Star

Matt Hoff, then president of the Boyce company and chairman of the county's fire commission, recalling in 2018 how the association began. A recollection reported at the time, not a contemporary record of the founding.

News quoting a joint county press release2013-06-17

Warren to lead failing VFD

The Northern Virginia Daily

The reporting quotes a press release issued jointly by the two counties. Neither the audit nor the resolution itself has been read here. It was published on 17 June 2013 and describes the action as taken on a Tuesday; the two later accounts both date the resolution to 18 June, and that is the date used here.

News reporting a court order2013-08-13

Judge dissolves Shenandoah Farms fire company

The Northern Virginia Daily

The court order itself has not been read. The article reports the judge signed it on the Wednesday before publication, which was 7 August 2013; that date is worked out from the article rather than printed in it.

Trade association news, drawn from the Northern Virginia Daily2014-09-22

Shenandoah Farms Fire Station Back on Track

Virginia State Firefighters Association

This account draws on the same newspaper reporting used elsewhere on this page, so it is not an independent witness to the dissolution. It is the source for what happened at the station afterwards: it dates round-the-clock career staffing from 18 June 2013 through November, and describes the weekday pattern in place by September 2014.

The county's own current statement

Volunteer Companies

Clarke County, Virginia

Read on 10 September 2026. A snapshot of what the county says now, carrying no date for when paid staffing began.

Local news feature2021-04-16

This is our Boyce Volunteer Fire Company

Clarke Monthly

Reports a fire hall opening in March 1961. The company's own account dates a dedication to October 1960. Both are kept; a dedication and an opening may be two milestones or two accounts of one.

A republication of federal data

Tax Exempt Organizations, Clarke County VA

TaxExemptWorld, from the IRS Business Master File

A ruling date is the month the IRS recognized an exemption. It is not a founding date and not an incorporation date.

Company finances

Compare annual revenue and expenses for Enders, Boyce and Blue Ridge. The figures come from their IRS returns and published summaries of IRS data. County staffing costs and the former Shenandoah Farms company are not included.

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Compare what these organizations reported to the IRS: revenue, expenses, surplus or deficit, categories, and year-end balances. Pick the organizations and years, switch between the chart and the table, and download the selected figures with their sources. Showing revenue and expenses for all 3 organizations, 2011 to 2025.

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Total revenue and total expenses for each year, as reported.

Fiscal years
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Revenue and expenses, 2011 to 2025Revenue and expenses for John H. Enders Fire Company & Rescue Squad, Boyce Volunteer Fire Company and Blue Ridge Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company, fiscal years 2011 to 2025. The vertical scale runs from $0 to $800k.$0$200k$400k$600k$800k20112013201520172019202120232025Boyce — total expensesJohn H. Enders — total revenueJohn H. Enders — total expensesBoyce — total revenueBlue Ridge — total expensesBlue Ridge — total revenue
Revenue and expenses for John H. Enders Fire Company & Rescue Squad, Boyce Volunteer Fire Company and Blue Ridge Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company, fiscal years 2011 to 2025. The vertical scale runs from $0 to $800k. 4 points have no figure; the lines break there rather than dropping to zero. The same figures are in the table below.

Where these figures came from

Each row's source detail names the filing and the line it was read from. Both are in the downloadable file.

John H. Enders Fire Company & Rescue Squad

Filed as
JOHN H ENDERS FIRE CO INC (EIN 546041675)
Reporting scope
this organization as it files
Years held in this range
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Fiscal year 2025
No return found for this year in the sources checked. Whether one was filed, is on extension, or is simply not yet published is not known.

Boyce Volunteer Fire Company

Filed as
BOYCE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC (EIN 541716323)
Reporting scope
this organization as it files
Years held in this range
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Fiscal year 2025
No return found for this year in the sources checked. Whether one was filed, is on extension, or is simply not yet published is not known.

Blue Ridge Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company

Filed as
BLUE RIDGE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC (EIN 510209846)
Reporting scope
this organization as it files
Years held in this range
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Fiscal year 2025
Read from the return this company filed with the IRS.

County funding, kept separate

Every county figure here is money proposed or appropriated for the county's 2027 fiscal year. None of it is a record of money actually spent, and none of it belongs beside what a company reported on its own return: the two count different things.

FY2027 budget development. The Finance Committee reviewed options for implementing the Fire Rescue Advisory Group's recommended staffing plan: five new full-time county employees PLUS AN ANNUAL PAYMENT TO BOYCE FIRE COMPANY OF $332,000, or twelve new county employees if the county provided staffing at Boyce directly.

Basis: proposed. Fiscal year: county FY2027 (1 July 2026 - 30 June 2027). A figure under deliberation. It has not been adopted and may never be spent.

Source: Clarke County Board of Supervisors, Finance Committee meeting summary, 12 February 2026 — https://www.clarkecounty.gov/government/budget (read 2026-09-11)

A citizen representing the Boyce Volunteer Fire Company spoke at the 13 April 2026 public hearing in favour of continuing the company's current model rather than staffing that station with full-time county personnel. The Board then directed staff to prepare a second budget version based on applying for SAFER grant funding for five new firefighter positions instead of the twelve in the placeholder.

Basis: public hearing record. Fiscal year: county FY2027 (1 July 2026 - 30 June 2027). An account of what was said at a public hearing. Not a dollar figure and not a county position.

Source: Clarke County Board of Supervisors, public hearing summary, 13 April 2026 — https://www.clarkecounty.gov/government/budget (read 2026-09-11)

The Board added a $360,000 revenue and expenditure appropriation for a SAFER grant (17 March 2026). The Finance Committee added $52,800 in capital for Fire-Rescue equipment contingent on the county hiring twelve new staff with that grant, funded the Blue Ridge Fire Company's capital request, and declined a new Chief vehicle, saving $25,000.

Basis: appropriated. Fiscal year: county FY2027 (1 July 2026 - 30 June 2027). Authority to spend, adopted by the Board. Authority is not expenditure; the amount actually spent may differ or be zero.

Source: Clarke County Board of Supervisors and Finance Committee summaries, 3 and 17 March 2026 — https://www.clarkecounty.gov/government/budget (read 2026-09-11)

What these figures do not show

These are the amounts each organization reported on its own annual return. They are not the total cost of the service it provides: volunteer time, staff employed by someone else, mutual aid and equipment bought by others sit outside them. Nothing here scores or orders the organizations.

Coverage is uneven. Of 45 organization-years, 16 are read from the filed return, 27 come from a published summary of the IRS data that has not been checked against the return, 0 exist only as a scanned PDF that has not been read, and 2 have no return located. A year read from a return and a year read from a summary are different kinds of evidence.

The categories shown are the ones this comparison holds, not every line on a return. A missing figure is named in words and breaks the chart line; a reported zero is shown as $0 with the evidence behind it.

What each company reported

John H. Enders Fire Company & Rescue SquadRead from the return this company filed with the IRS.
Boyce Volunteer Fire CompanyRead from the return this company filed with the IRS.
Blue Ridge Volunteer Fire and Rescue CompanyRead from the return this company filed with the IRS.

This table scrolls sideways on a narrow screen. The measure name stays fixed on the left.

All amounts are for fiscal years ending 2024. Each company reports to a December year end.
MeasureJohn H. Enders Fire Company & Rescue SquadBoyce Volunteer Fire CompanyBlue Ridge Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company
TotalsAs reported on the filing. Revenue less expenses is worked out from the two rows above it.
Total revenue $498,712$381,926$249,275
Total expenses $420,800$513,070$253,572
Revenue less expensesworked out from the two rows above, not a reported line $77,912−$131,144−$4,297
Revenue categoriesParts of total revenue, as separately reported. This is the detail held for this comparison, not every line on the return.
Contributions, gifts and grants $446,147$190,032$208,475
of which: government grantsreported separately on the return $296,852$97,736$168,360
Program service revenue Not available in this comparisonNot available in this comparisonNot available in this comparison
Investment income $12,125$828$1,001
Membership dues Not available in this comparisonNot available in this comparisonNot available in this comparison
Royalties Not available in this comparisonNot available in this comparisonNot available in this comparison
Other revenue Not available in this comparison$1,076Not available in this comparison
GamingThree different presentations of one activity. The NET row is what enters total revenue; adding the gross row to the total would count the activity twice.
Gross gaming receiptsgross Not available in this comparison$1,441,263Not available in this comparison
Less: direct gaming expensesdirect cost Not available in this comparison$1,216,513Not available in this comparison
Net gaming incomenet - this is the figure inside total revenue Not available in this comparison$224,750Not available in this comparison
Fundraising eventsThe same three presentations as gaming. Separate from the fundraising EXPENSE function further down.
Gross fundraising receiptsgross $114,757$5,931$15,527
Less: direct fundraising expensesdirect cost $75,067$53,252$5,822
Net fundraising incomenet - this is the figure inside total revenue $39,690−$47,321$9,705
Expenses by natural categoryNatural categories say WHAT was bought. They are another way of splitting the same total expenses as the functional section, and the two are never added together.
Other salaries and wagesPart IX line 7. “Other” means other than the officer compensation on line 5, shown below; the two do not overlap. Not available in this comparison$166,855Not available in this comparison
Compensation of current officers, directors and key employeesPart IX line 5 Not available in this comparisonNot available in this comparisonNot available in this comparison
Payroll taxes Not available in this comparison$13,028Not available in this comparison
Fees for professional fundraising servicesa natural category, NOT the fundraising function Not available in this comparisonNot available in this comparisonNot available in this comparison
Occupancy $32,445$74,817$26,017
Insurance Not available in this comparison$8,780Not available in this comparison
Depreciation $191,361$127,402$114,907
Interest $2,360$8,954$3,392
Office expenses $3,827$7,746$2,507
All other expenses $507$16,442$5,769
Expenses by functionFunctional categories say WHY. The same total expenses split a second way; where an original return is held these three add up to total expenses.
Program servicesPart IX column B $415,978$464,364$243,703
Management and generalPart IX column C $4,822$31,519$9,869
FundraisingPart IX column D $0Reported as zero in the filed return.$17,187$0Reported as zero in the filed return.
Financial position, year endBalance-sheet measures as reported.
Total assets $1,687,975$1,755,610$978,176
Total liabilities $58,406$177,990$196,191
Net assets $1,629,569$1,577,620$781,985

Figures come from the company’s filed return when available, or from a published summary of IRS data.

Where these figures came from

Select a figure to see its source and line reference. Source details are also included in the download.

John H. Enders Fire Company & Rescue Squad

Filed as
JOHN H ENDERS FIRE CO INC (EIN 546041675)
Source of the figures below
Read from the return this company filed with the IRS.
Fiscal period
202412
Form
990
IRS object id
202543219349328389
Return sha256
fbc3ad09f1509facba039b6e79476fb877e1ff5daa33a31b5c228af1d0fc5aa1
Document
IRS batch archive holding this return
Worked out here
One figure shown for this company is worked out on this page from two reported totals, and was not read from any return.

Boyce Volunteer Fire Company

Filed as
BOYCE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC (EIN 541716323)
Source of the figures below
Read from the return this company filed with the IRS.
Fiscal period
202412
Form
990
IRS object id
202543189349313199
Return sha256
61b020083c0226589bbef2a2a1943046fc4b04d76a6dfa1a75191f0f9496de9d
Document
IRS batch archive holding this return
Worked out here
One figure shown for this company is worked out on this page from two reported totals, and was not read from any return.

Blue Ridge Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company

Filed as
BLUE RIDGE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC (EIN 510209846)
Source of the figures below
Read from the return this company filed with the IRS.
Fiscal period
202412
Form
990
IRS object id
202523189349303722
Return sha256
69d9c477d1b9e36c01424be7da973645709b0a65e58ffe90461a7a22bcbbe441
Document
IRS batch archive holding this return
Worked out here
One figure shown for this company is worked out on this page from two reported totals, and was not read from any return.

Total revenue over time

Annual revenue is listed below. Missing figures are labeled; they do not mean revenue was zero.

Total revenue by fiscal year. Years with no figure are named, never shown as zero and never joined across.
Fiscal yearJohn H. Enders Fire Company & Rescue SquadBoyce Volunteer Fire CompanyBlue Ridge Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company
2011$347,784$290,157$153,937
2012$241,824$331,318$142,369
2013$363,951$304,219$178,431
2014$402,257$246,639$302,279
2015$228,799$358,766$147,079
2016$240,949$299,404$343,584
2017$285,840$476,658$587,297
2018$265,722.73$312,771$206,991
2019$455,361$272,707$349,362
2020$640,579$360,860$189,977
2021$610,399$578,224$253,595
2022$573,429$540,810$188,001
2023$697,731$482,231$247,023
2024$498,712$381,926$249,275
2025Not available in this comparisonNot available in this comparison$279,149

County funding, kept separate

Every county figure here is money proposed or appropriated for the county's 2027 fiscal year. None of it is a record of money actually spent, and none of it belongs beside what a company reported on its own return: the two count different things.

FY2027 budget development. The Finance Committee reviewed options for implementing the Fire Rescue Advisory Group's recommended staffing plan: five new full-time county employees PLUS AN ANNUAL PAYMENT TO BOYCE FIRE COMPANY OF $332,000, or twelve new county employees if the county provided staffing at Boyce directly.

Basis: proposed. Fiscal year: county FY2027 (1 July 2026 - 30 June 2027). A figure under deliberation. It has not been adopted and may never be spent.

Source: Clarke County Board of Supervisors, Finance Committee meeting summary, 12 February 2026 — https://www.clarkecounty.gov/government/budget (read 2026-09-11)

A citizen representing the Boyce Volunteer Fire Company spoke at the 13 April 2026 public hearing in favour of continuing the company's current model rather than staffing that station with full-time county personnel. The Board then directed staff to prepare a second budget version based on applying for SAFER grant funding for five new firefighter positions instead of the twelve in the placeholder.

Basis: public hearing record. Fiscal year: county FY2027 (1 July 2026 - 30 June 2027). An account of what was said at a public hearing. Not a dollar figure and not a county position.

Source: Clarke County Board of Supervisors, public hearing summary, 13 April 2026 — https://www.clarkecounty.gov/government/budget (read 2026-09-11)

The Board added a $360,000 revenue and expenditure appropriation for a SAFER grant (17 March 2026). The Finance Committee added $52,800 in capital for Fire-Rescue equipment contingent on the county hiring twelve new staff with that grant, funded the Blue Ridge Fire Company's capital request, and declined a new Chief vehicle, saving $25,000.

Basis: appropriated. Fiscal year: county FY2027 (1 July 2026 - 30 June 2027). Authority to spend, adopted by the Board. Authority is not expenditure; the amount actually spent may differ or be zero.

Source: Clarke County Board of Supervisors and Finance Committee summaries, 3 and 17 March 2026 — https://www.clarkecounty.gov/government/budget (read 2026-09-11)

What this comparison does not show

This compares what three corporations reported on their own annual returns. It is not the total cost of fire and rescue service in Clarke County, and it says nothing about how well any company serves the community. Volunteer time, county-employed staff, mutual aid and equipment bought by others are all outside it.

Coverage is uneven, and the table says so year by year. Of 45 company-years in this window, 16 are read from the return the company filed, 27 come from a published summary of the IRS data that has not been checked line by line against the return, 0 exist only as a scanned PDF that has not been read, and 2 have no return located at all.

The category detail here is what this comparison holds, not every line on a return. A blank is never a zero: where a figure is missing the table says so in words. Where a figure is zero it is shown as $0 with the evidence behind that zero — whether it was read from the filed return, or taken from a published summary and not checked against the return. Comparing two companies in a year where one is read from its return and the other from a summary is comparing two different kinds of evidence.

Figures come from IRS Form 990 returns, which are public records. Nothing on this page is an allegation, a ranking or an assessment of any company, and no efficiency or quality score is calculated anywhere in it.

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