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Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association Inc at a glance

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Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association Inc

Administrative liaison and training center

$13M
Granted FY2022
14
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2022 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $190k
  • $250k+13 grants · $13M
$852,001
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 4%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 4%SYKESVILLE-FREEDOM DISTRICT FIRE DEPT: $1.8M → 6%Mt Airy Vol Fire Co: $1.1M → 6%Sykesville Freedom Dist Fire: $1.5M → 6%Mt Airy Vol Fire Co: $1.0M → 6%Sykesville Freedom Dist Fire: $1.5M → 6%MOUNT AIRY FIRE COMPANY: $1.0M → 6%SYKESVILLE-FREEDOM DISTRICT FIRE DEPT: $1.4M → 6%MOUNT AIRY FIRE COMPANY: $1.0M → 6%SYKESVILLE-FREEDOM DISTRICT FIRE DEPT: $1.4M → 6%MOUNT AIRY FIRE COMPANY: $989k → 6%SYKESVILLE-FREEDOM DISTRICT FIRE DEPT: $1.4M → 6%MOUNT AIRY FIRE COMPANY: $949k → 6%UNION BRIDGE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $1.0M → 6%Winfield Comm Vol Fire Dept: $988k → 6%Union Bridge Fire Co: $754k → 6%UNION BRIDGE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $751k → 6%WINFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $988k → 6%WINFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $956k → 6%Winfield Comm Vol Fire Dept: $956k → 6%WINFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $949k → 6%WINFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $918k → 6%Westminster Fire Eng & Hose: $1.8M → 6%Westminster Fire Eng & Hose: $1.8M → 6%WESTMINSTER FIRE ENGINE & HOSE COMPANY: $1.8M → 6%WESTMINSTER FIRE ENGINE & HOSE COMPANY: $1.7M → 6%WESTMINSTER FIRE ENGINE & HOSE COMPANY: $1.6M → 6%WESTMINSTER FIRE ENGINE & HOSE COMPANY: $1.6M → 6%Pleasant Valley Comm Fire Dpt: $852k → 6%PLEASANT VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $847k → 6%Pleasant Valley Comm Fire Dpt: $834k → 6%PLEASANT VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $828k → 6%PLEASANT VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $813k → 6%PLEASANT VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $790k → 6%GAMBER & COMMUNITY VOL FIRE CO: $989k → 6%Gamber & Comm Vol Fire Co: $872k → 6%Gamber & Comm Vol Fire Co: $851k → 6%GAMBER & COMMUNITY VOL FIRE CO: $842k → 6%GAMBER & COMMUNITY VOL FIRE CO: $795k → 6%GAMBER & COMMUNITY VOL FIRE CO: $786k → 6%HAMPSTEAD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $800k → 6%Hampstead Vol Fire Co: $773k → 6%Taneytown Volunteer Fire Co: $742k → 6%Manchester Vol Fire Dept: $869k → 6%MANCHESTER VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $850k → 6%Manchester Vol Fire Dept: $848k → 6%MANCHESTER VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $790k → 6%MANCHESTER VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $790k → 6%MANCHESTER VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $788k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$74M · 14 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
0

Total granted

$74M
$0

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Public Safety & DisasterHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WF
    WESTMINSTER FIRE ENGINE & HOSE CO NO 1 INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $10M · revenue -68% · 51% of their budget
  • TP
    THE PLEASANT VALLEY COMM FIRE CO INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $7.9M · revenue -8% · 63% of their budget
  • TM
    THE MOUNT AIRY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $6.1M · revenue -30% · 47% of their budget

Funded once

    How this is measured

    Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

    04Its field

    Closest unfunded matches

    The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

    1
    Uniondale Volunteer Fire Company

    Fire and ems protection

    Public Safety & Disaster
    2
    Taylor Township Volunteer Fire Department
    —
    3
    Winchester Volunteer Fire Department

    to prevent the loss of life and to control or reduce the loss of property by applying all of our knowledge and resources.

    Public Safety & Disaster
    4
    Bakersville Volunteer Fire Company of Jefferson Township

    Volunteer fire department.

    Public Safety & Disaster
    5
    Kinsey Volunteer Fire Dept

    Volunteer fire dept

    —
    6
    Burnsville Volunteer Fire Department

    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.

    Public Safety & Disaster
    7
    Knifley Area Volunteer Fire Department
    Public Safety & Disaster
    8
    Central Volunteer Fire Department

    Volunteer fire department

    Public Safety & Disaster
    9
    Hopedale Volunteer Fire Department

    Providing volunteer firefighting & emergency services

    Public Safety & Disaster
    10
    Romney Volunteer Fire Company

    Local volunteer fire department providing fire protection and rescue services to the citizens of romney wv and surrounding areas.

    Public Safety & Disaster
    11
    Rudolph Volunteer Fire Department Inc

    Provide fire fighting services

    —
    12
    Marklesburg Volunteer Fire Company Number 1

    Fire protection service for the marklesburg area

    Public Safety & Disaster
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Winfield Community Volunteer Fire Dept; 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.
    04the grantee network

    14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

    Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

    How this is measured

    Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

    Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

    14
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    2
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    14/14
    Grantees still filing
    2/14
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    WESTMINSTER FIRE ENGINE & HOSE CO NO 1 INC: $10,280,543 · Public Safety & DisasterWESTMINSTER FIRE ENGINE & HOSE CO NO 1 INCTHE PLEASANT VALLEY COMM FIRE CO INC: $7,937,718 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE PLEASANT VALLEY COMM FIRE CO INCSykesville Freedom District Fire Dept: $6,040,672 · Public Safety & DisasterSykesville Freedom District Fire DeptWINFIELD COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $5,756,213 · Public Safety & DisasterWINFIELD COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPTGamber & Community Fire Co: $5,135,227 · Public Safety & DisasterGamber & Community Fire CoManchester Fire Engine & Hook & Lad: $4,935,152 · Public Safety & DisasterManchester Fire Engine & Hook & LadLINEBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $4,597,846 · Public Safety & DisasterLINEBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTREESE & COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC: $4,258,542 · Public Safety & DisasterREESE & COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INCTANEYTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE CO 1: $4,222,025 · Public Safety & DisasterTANEYTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE CO 1+1 more: $1,207,283 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE MOUNT AIRY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $6,090,846 · OtherTHE MOUNT AIRY VOLUNTEE…UNION BRIDGE FIRE COMPANY INC: $4,642,462 · OtherUNION BRIDGE FIRE COMPA…NEW WINDSOR FIRE & HOSE COMPANY 1: $4,346,169 · OtherNEW WINDSOR FIRE & HOSE…HAMPSTEAD VOLUNTEER FIRE AND HOSE COMPANY NO1: $4,308,852 · Health
    Public Safety & Disaster$54,371,221Other$15,079,477Health$4,308,852

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    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
    Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

    A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

    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.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

    2025
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      5get no government money at all
      9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
      typical government reliance, FY20–25
      How this is measured
      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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
      05Through Plinth

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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.

      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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