How much did WASHINGTON COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCU grant in FY2024?

WASHINGTON COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCU reported 26 grants totaling $972,556 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is WASHINGTON COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCU based?

WASHINGTON COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCU is based in MD.

WASHINGTON COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCU

Foundation Dossiers

· Public charity

WASHINGTON COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCU

To provide training and support to fire and rescue companies

$973k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$37k

Largest

01What you fund

0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$3.6MHealth$952kRecreation & Sports$238kOther$1.4M

02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$37,406

Median grant

States reached

$921k

Total assets

Largest grants

WESTERN ENTERPRISE FIRE COMPANY$37,406
VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF HALFWAY MD INC$37,406
CLEAR SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC$37,406
MAUGANSVILLE GOODWILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC$37,406
SOUTH HAGERSTOWN ENG 5$37,406
LONG MEADOW VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC$37,406
INDEPENDENT JUNIOR FIRE COMPANY ENG NO 3 OF HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND$37,406
COMMUNITY RESCUE SERVICE INC$37,406
SMITHSBURG EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC$37,406
CLEAR SPRING AMBULANCE CLUB INC$37,406
ANTIETAM FIRE COMPANY ENG 2$37,406
HANCOCK FIRE COMPANY INC$37,406
SHARPSBURG AREA EMERGENCY SERVICE INC$37,406
SMITHSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC$37,406
FIRST HOSE CO OF BOONSBORO$37,406

02The need

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 89% of WASHINGTON COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCU’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 11% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

WASHINGTON COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.2M · 26 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.2M

Still filing today

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Public Safety & DisasterHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

CR
COMMUNITY RESCUE SERVICE INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $238k · revenue +85%
BA
BOONSBORO AMBULANCE & RESCUE SERVICE INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $238k · revenue +173%
CS
CLEAR SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $238k · revenue +23%

Funded once

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Shrewsbury Volunteer Fire Company

Fire protection and emergency services for shrewsbury (pennsylvania), conduct fire prevention programs, and assist other fire companies as needed

Public Safety & Disaster

Romney Volunteer Fire Company

Local volunteer fire department providing fire protectiona nd rescue services to the citizens of romney wv and surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster

Flemington Volunteer Fire

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

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Hagaman Volunteer Fire Department

To provide fire protection for the residents of the town of amsterdam and village of hagaman in upstate new york.

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Shepherdstown Fire Department

Provides fire protection and ambulance service

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Federalsburg Volunteer Fire Co Inc

Provide emergency fire and ambulance service to the community of federalsburg

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Moorefield Volunteer Fire Company

Volunteer fire company providing fire protection and emergency rescue services to hardy county, wv

Public Safety & Disaster

Fairmont-Hahntown Volunteer Fire Dept

Volunteer Firefighting

Public Safety & Disaster

Millersburg Fire Co No 1

Volunteer fire company

Public Safety & Disaster

Community Fire Company of Frystown

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

Public Safety & Disaster

Tasley Fire Department

The tasley volunteer fire company, incorporated was organized for the purpose of fighting fires and protecting the lives and property of the citizens of the town of tasley and the surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster

Huntingtown Volunteer Fire Department

Fire, Rescue & Emergency Medical Services

Public Safety & Disaster

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Hagerstown Fire Company Inc and the most unlike its peers is First Hose Company of Boonsboro Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/26

the rest of the field

10%

91/940

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

25/26

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Public Safety & Disaster$3,569,199Other$1,427,678Health$951,788Recreation & Sports$237,947

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.

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Iaff Local 1605 Foundation IncMD24.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Iaff Local 1605 Foundation Inc · Albert E & Naomi B Sinnisen Foundation · The Jone L Bowman Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation WASHINGTON COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCU 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

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11get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SOUTH HAGERSTOWN ENG 5.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~203 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 237114182 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SOUTH HAGERSTOWN ENG 5, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 203 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 59% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescu?

Find your warmest path to Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescu through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WASHINGTON COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCU

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescu?

More from the funding graph

WASHINGTON COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCU

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescu?

More from the funding graph