· Public charity
Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Inc
To provide training and support to local member fire and rescue companies.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE CO OF DISTRICT 12 | $37,189 |
| SMITHSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC | $37,189 |
| SMITHSBURG EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC | $37,189 |
| SOUTH HAGERSTOWN ENG 5 | $37,189 |
| POTOMAC VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC | $37,189 |
| WESTERN ENTERPRISE FIRE COMPANY | $37,189 |
| SHARPSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $37,189 |
| SHARPSBURG AREA EMERGENCY SERVICE INC | $37,189 |
| VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF HALFWAY MD INC | $37,189 |
| CLEAR SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC | $37,188 |
| INDEPENDENT JUNIOR FIRE COMPANY ENG NO 3 OF HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND | $37,188 |
| LEITERSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC | $37,188 |
| MAUGANSVILLE GOODWILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC | $37,188 |
| HANCOCK FIRE COMPANY INC | $37,188 |
| CLEAR SPRING AMBULANCE CLUB INC | $37,188 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Inc’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, 100% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- AFANTIETAM FIRE COMPANY9× · 2017–2025 · $305k · revenue +159% · 37% of their budget
- SVSHARPSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC9× · 2017–2025 · $302k · revenue +168%
- PVPOTOMAC VALLEY FIRE COMPANY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $302k · revenue +270% · 41% of their budget
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.
Provides fire protection and ambulance service
Local volunteer fire department providing fire protection and rescue services to the citizens of romney wv and surrounding areas.
To provide volunteer fire fighting services in the flemington, wv region.
Provide emergency fire and ambulance service to the community of federalsburg.
Provide Fire Prevention & Protection Services
Fire, Rescue & Emergency Medical Services
Volunteer Fire Dept
Mission for burnsville vfd burnsville wv the burnsville vfd provides fire protection fire safety and emergency rescue services to the citizens in its designated area. bvfd serves in a safe efficient manner serving all stakeholders.
Fire protection.
Fire protection for the City of Lewisburg, WV and surrounding areas
Volunteer Firefighting
To provide fire safety to the pocomoke city community.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 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.
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 ANTIETAM FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SHARPSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds POTOMAC VALLEY FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF HALFWAY MD INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN ENTERPRISE FIRE CO NO 4 ↗
- Who funds SMITHSBURG COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSBURG EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH HAGERSTOWN FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds SHARPSBURG AREA EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE ↗
- Who funds PIONEER HOOK & LADDER COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST HOSE COMPANY OF BOONSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEITERSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds LONGMEADOW VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MT AETNA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE & EMS INC ↗
- Who funds MAUGANSVILLE GOODWILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HANCOCK FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds BOONSBORO AMBULANCE AND RESCUE SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT JUNIOR FIRE ENGINE COMPANY NO 3 OF HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESCUE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAR SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CLEAR SPRING AMBULANCE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST HAGERSTOWN HOSE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds FUNKSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds HANCOCK RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC OF DISTRICT NO 12 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Iaff Local 1605 Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc · Richard N Funkhouser Foundationinc · The Jone L Bowman Foundation Inc · Albert E & Naomi B Sinnisen Foundation · 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 organization Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boonsboro Ambulance and Rescue Service — 3% of income from government
- Williamsport Volunteer Fire & Ems Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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