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Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association Inc

Administrative liaison and training center

$13M
Granted FY2022
14
Grants FY2022
13
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$852,001
Largest grant, FY2022
$1,805,802
Organizations funded a year
13 to 14
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$1.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202213$13M0%
FY202113$12M0%
FY202014$12M0%
FY201914$13M0%
FY201814$12M0%
FY201714$12Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Public Safety & Disaster$74M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Westminster Fire Engine & Hose Co No 1 Inc$10,280,543651%
The Pleasant Valley Comm Fire Co Inc$7,937,718663%
The Mount Airy Volunteer Fire Company$6,090,846647%
Sykesville Freedom District Fire Dept$6,040,672459%
Winfield Community Volunteer Fire Dept$5,756,213661%
Gamber & Community Fire Co$5,135,227679%
Manchester Fire Engine & Hook & Lad$4,935,152664%
Union Bridge Fire Company Inc$4,642,462675%
Lineboro Volunteer Fire Department$4,597,846667%
New Windsor Fire & Hose Company 1$4,346,169671%
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All grantees of Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Westminster Fire Engine & Hose Co No 1 Inc$10,280,543651%
The Pleasant Valley Comm Fire Co Inc$7,937,718663%
The Mount Airy Volunteer Fire Company$6,090,846647%
Sykesville Freedom District Fire Dept$6,040,672459%
Winfield Community Volunteer Fire Dept$5,756,213661%
Gamber & Community Fire Co$5,135,227679%
Manchester Fire Engine & Hook & Lad$4,935,152664%
Union Bridge Fire Company Inc$4,642,462675%
Lineboro Volunteer Fire Department$4,597,846667%
New Windsor Fire & Hose Company 1$4,346,169671%
Hampstead Volunteer Fire and Hose Company No1$4,308,852661%
Reese & Community Volunteer Fire Co Inc$4,258,542652%
Taneytown Volunteer Fire Co 1$4,222,025665%
The Harney Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated$1,207,283634%

Where it is load-bearing

Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 14 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWestminster Fire Engine & Hose Co No 1 Inc: $10,280,543 over 6y, 51% of budgetThe Pleasant Valley Comm Fire Co Inc: $7,937,718 over 6y, 63% of budgetThe Mount Airy Volunteer Fire Company: $6,090,846 over 6y, 47% of budgetSykesville Freedom District Fire Dept: $6,040,672 over 4y, 59% of budgetWinfield Community Volunteer Fire Dept: $5,756,213 over 6y, 61% of budgetGamber & Community Fire Co: $5,135,227 over 6y, 79% of budgetManchester Fire Engine & Hook & Lad: $4,935,152 over 6y, 64% of budgetUnion Bridge Fire Company Inc: $4,642,462 over 6y, 75% of budgetLineboro Volunteer Fire Department: $4,597,846 over 6y, 67% of budgetNew Windsor Fire & Hose Company 1: $4,346,169 over 6y, 71% of budgetHampstead Volunteer Fire and Hose Company No1: $4,308,852 over 6y, 61% of budgetReese & Community Volunteer Fire Co Inc: $4,258,542 over 6y, 52% of budgetTaneytown Volunteer Fire Co 1: $4,222,025 over 6y, 65% of budgetThe Harney Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated: $1,207,283 over 6y, 34% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association Inc?

Find your warmest path to Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association Inc

How much does Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association Inc give?
Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association Inc reported 14 grants totaling $12,692,024 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (100%).
Who are Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Westminster Fire Engine & Hose Co No 1 Inc ($10M), The Pleasant Valley Comm Fire Co Inc ($7.9M), The Mount Airy Volunteer Fire Company ($6.1M).
Does Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association Inc based?
Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association Inc is based in MD.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $5.3M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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