· Public charity
Iaff Local 1605 Foundation Inc
Promote fire safety and fire prevention in washington county maryland and surrounding community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $67,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $107,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $40,750 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k6 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLIAMSPORT FIRE COMPANY | $15,000 |
| MAUGANSVILLE GOODWILL FIRE | $15,000 |
| FUNKSTOWN VOL FIRE COMPANY | $8,000 |
| SMITHSBURG EMS INC | $7,000 |
| CLEAR SPRING VOL FIRE CO | $7,000 |
| HANCOCK FIRE COMPANY | $7,000 |
| COMMUNITY RESCUE SERVICE | $4,000 |
| LONGMEADOW VOL FIRE COMPANY | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 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
- WVWILLIAMSPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE & EMS INC6× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +9%
- MGMAUGANSVILLE GOODWILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY6× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +38%
- FVFUNKSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC6× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +33%
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.
All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.
Fire protection.
To provide fire safety to the pocomoke city community.
To provide volunteer fire fighting services in the flemington, wv region.
Volunteer fire company providing fire protection, rescue and medical services for the community of frystown and the surrounding area
We are a volunteer fire company and EMS service to our community. Founded in 1959, our organizations serves over 4,000 homes.
Fire protection and ambulance service
Ashville fire company is a volunteer organization that protects the residents of ashville and surrounding areas from fires and related accidents.
Fire and ambulance service for area residents
Fire protection to local residents and businesses.
Volunteer Fire Company
Fire protection for the City of Lewisburg, WV and surrounding areas
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Funkstown Volunteer Fire Co Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hancock Fire Company Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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 WILLIAMSPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE & EMS INC ↗
- Who funds MAUGANSVILLE GOODWILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds FUNKSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAR SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HANCOCK FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSBURG COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESCUE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds LONGMEADOW VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT JUNIOR FIRE ENGINE COMPANY NO 3 OF HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Inc · The Jone L Bowman Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Iaff Local 1605 Foundation 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.
- Williamsport Volunteer Fire & Ems Inc — 2% of income from government
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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