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Iaff Local 1605 Foundation Inc

Promote fire safety and fire prevention in washington county maryland and surrounding community.

$108k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$15k
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 2023.

Public Safety & Disaster$261k
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $67,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $107,750 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $40,750 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k6 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILLIAMSPORT FIRE COMPANY$15,000
MAUGANSVILLE GOODWILL FIRE$15,000
FUNKSTOWN VOL FIRE COMPANY$8,000
SMITHSBURG EMS INC$7,000
HANCOCK FIRE COMPANY$7,000
CLEAR SPRING VOL FIRE CO$7,000
LONGMEADOW VOL FIRE COMPANY$4,000
COMMUNITY RESCUE SERVICE$4,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WEST END FIRE AND RESCUE: $4k → 8%LONGMEADOW VOL FIRE COMPANY: $4k → 12%WEST END FIRE AND RESCUE: $4k → 8%LONGMEADOW VOL FIRE COMPANY: $4k → 12%LONGMEADOW VOL FIRE COMPANY: $4k → 12%LONGMEADOW VOL FIRE COMPANY: $4k → 12%MAUGANSVILLE GOODWILL FIRE: $15k → 12%MAUGANSVILLE GOODWILL FIRE: $14k → 12%MAUGANSVILLE GOODWILL FIRE: $14k → 12%MAUGANSVILLE GOODWILL FIRE: $14k → 12%FUNKSTOWN VOL FIRE COMPANY: $8k → 12%FUNKSTOWN VOL FIRE COMPANY: $8k → 12%FUNKSTOWN VOL FIRE COMPANY: $8k → 12%FUNKSTOWN VOL FIRE COMPANY: $8k → 12%SMITHSBURG EMS INC: $7k → 12%SMITHSBURG EMS INC: $6k → 12%SMITHSBURG EMS INC: $6k → 12%SMITHSBURG EMS INC: $2k → 12%WILLIAMSPORT FIRE COMPANY: $15k → 12%COMMUNITY RESCUE SERVICE: $4k → 12%WILLIAMSPORT FIRE COMPANY: $14k → 12%COMMUNITY RESCUE SERVICE: $4k → 12%WILLIAMSPORT FIRE COMPANY: $14k → 12%COMMUNITY RESCUE SERVICE: $4k → 12%WILLIAMSPORT FIRE COMPANY: $14k → 12%COMMUNITY RESCUE SERVICE: $4k → 12%CLEAR SPRING VOL FIRE CO: $11k → 12%HANCOCK FIRE COMPANY: $7k → 12%CLEAR SPRING VOL FIRE CO: $7k → 12%HANCOCK FIRE COMPANY: $6k → 12%CLEAR SPRING VOL FIRE CO: $6k → 12%HANCOCK FIRE COMPANY: $6k → 12%CLEAR SPRING VOL FIRE CO: $6k → 12%HANCOCK FIRE COMPANY: $6k → 12%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.
$261k · 9 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
0

Total granted

$261k
$0

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’22’23
Public Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • WV
    WILLIAMSPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE & EMS INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +9%
  • MG
    MAUGANSVILLE GOODWILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +38%
  • FV
    FUNKSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +33%

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
    Penn Volunteer Fire Department

    All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.

    —
    2
    Fisherville Volunteer Fire Co

    Fire protection.

    Public Safety & Disaster
    3
    Pocomoke City Volunteer Fire Co Inc

    To provide fire safety to the pocomoke city community.

    Public Safety & Disaster
    4
    Flemington Volunteer Fire Department Inc

    To provide volunteer fire fighting services in the flemington, wv region.

    —
    5
    Community Fire Company of Frystown

    Volunteer fire company providing fire protection, rescue and medical services for the community of frystown and the surrounding area

    Public Safety & Disaster
    6
    Stewartsville Chamblissburg Vfc Inc

    We are a volunteer fire company and EMS service to our community. Founded in 1959, our organizations serves over 4,000 homes.

    —
    7
    Woodstock Volunteer Fire Association Inc

    Fire protection and ambulance service

    Public Safety & Disaster
    8
    Ashville Volunteer Fire Co

    Ashville fire company is a volunteer organization that protects the residents of ashville and surrounding areas from fires and related accidents.

    Public Safety & Disaster
    9
    Millerstown Fire Company

    Fire and ambulance service for area residents

    Public Safety & Disaster
    10
    Lockington Volunteer Fire Association Llc

    Fire protection to local residents and businesses.

    —
    11
    Falling Spring Fire Department

    Volunteer Fire Company

    Public Safety & Disaster
    12
    Lewisburg Volunteer Fire Department Inc

    Fire protection for the City of Lewisburg, WV and surrounding areas

    —
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Funkstown Volunteer Fire Co Inc; 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.
    04the grantee network

    9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

    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 2025, 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    5
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    9/9
    Grantees still filing
    9/9
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    MAUGANSVILLE GOODWILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $57,900 · Public Safety & DisasterMAUGANSVILLE GOODWILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANYFUNKSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC: $30,800 · Public Safety & DisasterFUNKSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INCCLEAR SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $29,500 · Public Safety & DisasterCLEAR SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANYHANCOCK FIRE COMPANY INC: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHANCOCK FIRE COMPANY INCSMITHSBURG COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $21,200 · Public Safety & DisasterSMITHSBURG COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INCLONGMEADOW VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $15,400 · Public Safety & DisasterLONGMEADOW VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INCWILLIAMSPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE & EMS INC: $57,900 · Recreation & SportsWILLIAMSPORT VOLUNTEER FI…COMMUNITY RESCUE SERVICE INC: $15,500 · HealthTHE INDEPENDENT JUNIOR FIRE ENGINE COMPANY NO 3 OF HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND: $7,600 · Other
    Public Safety & Disaster$179,800Recreation & Sports$57,900Health$15,500Other$7,600

    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 budgetWILLIAMSPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE & EMS INC: $57,900 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetMAUGANSVILLE GOODWILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $57,900 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetFUNKSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC: $30,800 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetCLEAR SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $29,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetHANCOCK FIRE COMPANY INC: $25,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetSMITHSBURG COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $21,200 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESCUE SERVICE INC: $15,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLONGMEADOW VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $15,400 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENT JUNIOR FIRE ENGINE COMPANY NO 3 OF HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND: $7,600 over 3y, 3.8% 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.

    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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

    Washington County Vol…The Jone L Bowman Fou…Amazonsmile Foundation
    Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md IncMD24.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Inc · The Jone L Bowman Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

    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 Iaff Local 1605 Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Iaff Local 1605 Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
    • Williamsport Volunteer Fire & Ems Inc: 2% of income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 Iaff Local 1605 Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Iaff Local 1605 Foundation 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 9 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $123k 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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