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Virginia Beach Rescue Squad Foundation Inc

To support an independent and vital Virginia Beach Volunteer rescue system.

$455k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$233k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$4.5M
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $406,529, the rows itemized in this filing. The $455,226 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $48,697 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $173k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $233k
$27,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Virginia Beach Rescue Squad Inc$233,056
Water Rescue Team MRT$45,002
Chesapeake Beach Vol Fire Dept$27,000
Princess Anne Courthouse Volunteer$27,000
Sandbridge Rescue & Fire Inc$27,000
Ocean Park Vol Fire & Rescue$27,000
Plaza Volunteer Rescue Squad$20,471
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%VIRGINIA BEACH RESCUE SQUAD INC: $736k → 10%VIRGINIA BEACH VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQU: $575k → 10%VIRGINIA BEACH VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQU: $544k → 10%VIRGINIA BEACH VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQU: $358k → 10%VIRGINIA BEACH VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQU: $315k → 10%VIRGINIA BEACH VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQU: $303k → 10%VIRGINIA BEACH VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQU: $239k → 10%Virginia Beach Rescue Squad Inc: $233k → 10%VA BEACH WATER RESCUE TEAM: $50k → 10%VA BEACH VOLUNTEER WATER RESCUE: $20k → 10%VA BEACH WATER RESCUE TEAM: $16k → 10%VA BEACH VOLUNTEER WATER RESCUE: $12k → 10%VA BEACH VOLUNTEER WATER RESCUE: $11k → 10%OCEAN PARK VOL FIRE & RESCUE: $71k → 10%CHESAPEAKE BEACH VOL FIRE DPMT: $64k → 10%CHESAPEAKE BEACH VOL FIRE DPMT: $45k → 10%OCEAN PARK VOL FIRE & RESCUE: $29k → 10%Ocean Park Vol Fire & Rescue: $27k → 10%Chesapeake Beach Vol Fire Dept: $27k → 10%CHESAPEAKE BEACH VOL FIRE DPMT: $27k → 10%DAVIS CORNER VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQ: $26k → 10%OCEAN PARK VOL FIRE & RESCUE: $20k → 10%CHESAPEAKE BEACH VOL FIRE DPMT: $20k → 10%DAVIS CORNER VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQ: $20k → 10%OCEAN PARK VOL FIRE & RESCUE: $15k → 10%DAVIS CORNER VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQ: $14k → 10%OCEAN PARK VOL FIRE & RESCUE: $7k → 10%PRINCESS ANNE COURTHOUSE VOLUNTEER: $60k → 10%PRINCESS ANNE COURTHOUSE VOLUNTEER: $52k → 10%SANDBRIDGE RESCUE & FIRE INC: $30k → 10%PRINCESS ANNE COURTHOUSE VOLUNTEER: $28k → 10%Princess Anne Courthouse Volunteer: $27k → 10%Sandbridge Rescue & Fire Inc: $27k → 10%SANDBRIDGE RESCUE & FIRE INC: $27k → 10%PRINCESS ANNE COURTHOUSE VOLUNTEER: $24k → 10%PLAZA VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD: $28k → 10%PRINCESS ANNE COURTHOUSE VOLUNTEER: $24k → 10%PLAZA VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD: $21k → 10%SANDBRIDGE RESCUE & FIRE INC: $22k → 10%Plaza Volunteer Rescue Squad: $20k → 10%PRINCESS ANNE COURTHOUSE VOLUNTEER: $20k → 10%PLAZA VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD: $20k → 10%SANDBRIDGE RESCUE & FIRE INC: $20k → 10%PLAZA VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD: $19k → 10%SANDBRIDGE RESCUE & FIRE INC: $12k → 10%CREEDS VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD: $30k → 10%CREEDS VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE: $24k → 10%BLACKWATER VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD: $22k → 10%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 9 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
1

Total granted

$4.4M
$22k

Still filing today

89%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public Safety & DisasterHealthOther
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

  • VB
    VIRGINIA BEACH RESCUE SQUAD INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +112% · 56% of their budget
  • PA
    PRINCESS ANNE COURTHOUSE VRS AND FD
    7× · 2017–2024 · $235k · revenue +66%
  • CB
    CHESAPEAKE BEACH FIRE & VOLUNTEER RESCUE DEPT INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $183k · revenue +783% · 55% of their budget

Funded once

  • BV
    BLACKWATER VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD
    one grant, 2017 · $22k
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
Liberty Volunteer Fire Department

to provide fire response an rescue units to the residents of Halifax county VA and surrounding counties as needed

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Burkeville Volunteer Fire Department

The organization provides emergency, medical, and fire fighting services to the citizens in and around the Burkeville, Virginia area.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Savannah Volunteer Fire Company

Volunteer fire & emergency services to protect the community.

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Dolphin Volunteer Fire Department

Fire protection services for dolphin, va and surrounding communities

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5
Southside Rescue Squad Inc

Emergency medical treatment

Health
6
Woodland Beach Volunteer Fire Department

To provide free fire protection,emergency medical assistance & rescue services

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Snowville Volunteer Fire Dept Inc

Public safety

—
8
Wachapreague Volunteer Fire Company Inc

Volunteer fire department providing government-in-nature services.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
East Hanover Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc

Provide emergency care and ambulance service to the citizens in eastern Hanover County, Virginia, responding to 800 calls, annually

—
10
Gerrittsen Beach Fire Volunteers Inc

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…

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Berwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc

Operation of a volunteer fire department and rescue squad for the citizens of the Town of Berwyn Heights, MD

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Buena Vista Firefighters Inc

To provide fire protection and emergency services

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Virginia Beach Rescue Squad Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VIRGINIA BEACH RESCUE SQUAD INC: $3,304,149 · HealthVIRGINIA BEACH RESCUE SQUAD INCOCEAN PARK VOLUNTEER F & RU INC: $277,844 · Public Safety & DisasterOCEAN PARK VOLUNTEER F & R…PRINCESS ANNE COURTHOUSE VRS AND FD: $235,448 · Public Safety & DisasterPRINCESS ANNE COURTHOUSE V…CHESAPEAKE BEACH FIRE & VOLUNTEER RESCUE DEPT INC: $183,040 · Public Safety & DisasterCHESAPEAKE BEACH FIRE & VO…Sandbridge Fire Brigade Inc: $137,729 · Public Safety & DisasterSandbridge Fire Brigade In…VIRGINIA BEACH VOLUNTEER WATER RESCUE TEAM INC: $114,808 · Public Safety & DisasterVIRGINIA BEACH VOLUNTEER W…DAVIS CORNER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT & RESCUE SQ: $59,626 · Public Safety & DisasterDAVIS CORNER VOLUNTEER FIR…KEMPSVILLE RESCUE SQUAD INC: $57,974 · Public Safety & DisasterKEMPSVILLE RESCUE SQUAD IN…CREEDS VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD: $54,000 · OtherWater Rescue Team MRT: $45,002 · OtherBLACKWATER VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD: $22,300 · Other
Health$3,304,149Public Safety & Disaster$1,066,469Other$121,302

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 budgetVIRGINIA BEACH RESCUE SQUAD INC: $3,304,149 over 8y, 56% of budgetOCEAN PARK VOLUNTEER F & RU INC: $277,844 over 7y, 21% of budgetPRINCESS ANNE COURTHOUSE VRS AND FD: $235,448 over 7y, 14% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BEACH FIRE & VOLUNTEER RESCUE DEPT INC: $183,040 over 5y, 55% of budgetSandbridge Fire Brigade Inc: $137,729 over 6y, 31% of budgetDAVIS CORNER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT & RESCUE SQ: $59,626 over 3y, 12% of budgetKEMPSVILLE RESCUE SQUAD INC: $57,974 over 4y, 10% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Virginia Beach Rescue Squad Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Virginia Beach Rescue Squad Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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