· Public charity
The Vigilant Hose Company of Emmitsburg
Provide volunteer fire fighting, emergency ambulance service, rescue, fire prevention and education services for the community of 2000+ people and surrounding areas, answering approximately 1400 emergency calls per year.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE VIGILANT HOSE HOLDING COMPANY | $961,272 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2018–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2018 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.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Vigilant Hose Company of Emmitsburg funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vigilant Hose Company of Emmitsburg. Bigger dots raise more.