· Public charity
Virginia Beach Rescue Squad Foundation Inc
To support an independent and vital Virginia Beach Volunteer rescue system.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $406,529 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $455,226 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $48,697 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $173k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $233k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Virginia Beach Rescue Squad Inc | $233,056 |
| Water Rescue Team MRT | $45,002 |
| Princess Anne Courthouse Volunteer | $27,000 |
| Sandbridge Rescue & Fire Inc | $27,000 |
| Chesapeake Beach Vol Fire Dept | $27,000 |
| Ocean Park Vol Fire & Rescue | $27,000 |
| Plaza Volunteer Rescue Squad | $20,471 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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 — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- VBVIRGINIA BEACH RESCUE SQUAD INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +112% · 56% of their budget
- PAPRINCESS ANNE COURTHOUSE VRS AND FD7× · 2017–2024 · $235k · revenue +66%
- CBCHESAPEAKE BEACH FIRE & VOLUNTEER RESCUE DEPT INC5× · 2018–2024 · $183k · revenue +783% · 55% of their budget
Funded once
- BVBLACKWATER VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUADone grant, 2017 · $22k
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 response an rescue units to the residents of Halifax county VA and surrounding counties as needed
The organization provides emergency, medical, and fire fighting services to the citizens in and around the Burkeville, Virginia area.
Volunteer fire & emergency services to protect the community.
Fire protection services for dolphin, va and surrounding communities
Emergency medical treatment
To provide free fire protection,emergency medical assistance & rescue services
Volunteer Fire and Ambulance Service
Volunteer fire department
Public safety
Provide emergency care and ambulance service to the citizens in eastern Hanover County, Virginia, responding to 800 calls, annually
Operation of community based volunteer fire department and ambulance service residents and visitors to the community of Gerrittsen Beach. Including training of members and residents in first-aide,CPR, defibrillation, fire prevention and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Virginia Beach Rescue Squad Inc and the most unlike its peers is Princess Anne Courthouse Vrs and Fd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 11 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 VIRGINIA BEACH RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN PARK VOLUNTEER F & RU INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCESS ANNE COURTHOUSE VRS AND FD ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BEACH FIRE & VOLUNTEER RESCUE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds Sandbridge Fire Brigade Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BEACH VOLUNTEER WATER RESCUE TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIS CORNER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT & RESCUE SQ ↗
- Who funds KEMPSVILLE RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Virginia Beach Rescue Squad 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.
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.