· Public charity
Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association Inc
Administrative liaison and training center
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- $50k–250k1 grant · $190k
- $250k+13 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Westminster Fire Eng & Hose | $1,805,802 |
| Sykesville Freedom Dist Fire | $1,503,890 |
| Mt Airy Vol Fire Co | $1,073,996 |
| Winfield Comm Vol Fire Dept | $988,492 |
| Gamber & Comm Vol Fire Co | $871,668 |
| Manchester Vol Fire Dept | $869,354 |
| Pleasant Valley Comm Fire Dpt | $852,001 |
| Lineboro Volunteer Fire Co | $822,921 |
| Hampstead Vol Fire Co | $773,469 |
| Taneytown Volunteer Fire Co | $741,521 |
| Reese & Comm Vol Fire Co | $738,979 |
| New Windsor Fire & Hose Co | $734,829 |
| Union Bridge Fire Co | $725,385 |
| Harney Volunteer Fire Co | $189,717 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 4%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
14 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- WFWESTMINSTER FIRE ENGINE & HOSE CO NO 1 INC6× · 2017–2022 · $10M · revenue -68% · 51% of their budget
- TPTHE PLEASANT VALLEY COMM FIRE CO INC6× · 2017–2022 · $7.9M · revenue -13% · 63% of their budget
- TMTHE MOUNT AIRY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY6× · 2017–2022 · $6.1M · revenue -30% · 47% of their budget
Funded once
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Fire and ems protection
to prevent the loss of life and to control or reduce the loss of property by applying all of our knowledge and resources.
Volunteer fire department.
Volunteer fire dept
Mission for burnsville vfd burnsville wv the burnsville vfd provides fire protection fire safety and emergency rescue services to the citizens in its designated area. bvfd serves in a safe efficient manner serving all stakeholders.
Volunteer fire department
Providing volunteer firefighting & emergency services
Local volunteer fire department providing fire protection and rescue services to the citizens of romney wv and surrounding areas.
Provide fire fighting services
Fire protection service for the marklesburg area
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Winfield Community Volunteer Fire Dept and the most unlike its peers is Sykesville Freedom District Fire Dept. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WESTMINSTER FIRE ENGINE & HOSE CO NO 1 INC ↗
- Who funds THE PLEASANT VALLEY COMM FIRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT AIRY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Sykesville Freedom District Fire Dept ↗
- Who funds WINFIELD COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds Gamber & Community Fire Co ↗
- Who funds Manchester Fire Engine & Hook & Lad ↗
- Who funds UNION BRIDGE FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds LINEBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds NEW WINDSOR FIRE & HOSE COMPANY 1 ↗
- Who funds HAMPSTEAD VOLUNTEER FIRE AND HOSE COMPANY NO1 ↗
- Who funds REESE & COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds TANEYTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE CO 1 ↗
- Who funds THE HARNEY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INCORPORATED ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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