· Public charity
McDowell County Fire Commission
To facilitate the adequate and efficient protection of life and property of the citizens of mcdowell by ensuring that all fire departments are organized and meet the minimum requirements as defined by the north carolina department of insurance rating system
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k2 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $276k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCDOWELL COUNTY | $94,333 |
| MARION FIRE DEPT | $70,497 |
| OLD FORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $44,881 |
| MCDOWELL COUNTY FIREMANS ASSOCIATIO | $40,000 |
| GLENWOOD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $35,249 |
| PG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $35,249 |
| DYSARTSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $28,199 |
| CROOKED CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $28,199 |
| WOODLAWN SERVEIR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEP | $28,199 |
| ASHFORD NORTH COVE VOLUNTEER FIRE D | $19,866 |
| SUGAR HILL MONTFORD COVE VFD | $16,199 |
| NEBO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $9,199 |
| HANKINS NORTH FORK VFD | $9,099 |
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 (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 0% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2018, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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
- OFOLD FORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +258%
- PVPG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +295%
- GVGLENWOOD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +143%
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.
To provide fire department services for the community of wise, nc and surrounding areas
To provide fire protection and emergency medical responders to the community in a five mile radius of fire department in woodlawn-seiver area marion mcdowell county nc
To facilitate the adequate and efficient protection of life and property of the citizens of mcdowell by ensuring that all fire departments are organized and meet the minimum requirements as defined by the north carolina department of…
Provide fire protection to local residences and businesses
Provide fire protection services and fire prevention education for the community of cooleemee, nc.
Provide Fire Prevention & Protection Services
Fire protection
Fire protection services
The McKinleyville Volunteer Fire Department is an organization dedicated to the preservation of life, the prevention of fire, and the protection of property from and during such fires as they may occur in the village of McKinleyville,…
Fire & rescue for the east howellsville township in robeson county, nc.
To protect property and lives of our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Glenwood Volunteer Fire Department and the most unlike its peers is Nebo Volunteer Fire Department 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. 9 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 OLD FORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds PG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds THE CROOKED CREEK TOWNSHIP VFD ↗
- Who funds DYSARTSVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds ASHFORD-NORTHCOVE VFD ↗
- Who funds SUGAR HILL MONTFORD COVE FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds NEBO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HANKINS-NORTH FORK FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization McDowell County Fire Commission 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.