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Maryland · Public charity

Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Inc

To provide training and support to local member fire and rescue companies.

$967k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2025
26
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$37,188
Largest grant, FY2025
$37,189
Organizations funded a year
26 to 26
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$876k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving26$967k0%
FY202426$973k0%
FY202326$1.0M0%
FY202226$1.1M0%
FY202126$692k0%
FY202026$826k0%
FY201926$799k0%
FY201826$790k4%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$7.8M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Antietam Fire Company$304,703937%
Sharpsburg Volunteer Fire Co Inc$301,705911%
Volunteer Fire Company of Halfway Md Inc$301,70592%
Potomac Valley Fire Company Inc$301,705941%
Western Enterprise Fire Co No 4$301,705922%
Smithsburg Community Volunteer Fire Company Inc$301,704914%
Smithsburg Emergency Medical Services Inc$301,70499%
South Hagerstown Fire Company Inc$301,704959%
Sharpsburg Area Emergency Medical Service$301,70495%
Pioneer Hook & Ladder Company Inc$301,704957%
Show all 26 grantees
All grantees of Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Antietam Fire Company$304,703937%
Sharpsburg Volunteer Fire Co Inc$301,705911%
Volunteer Fire Company of Halfway Md Inc$301,70592%
Potomac Valley Fire Company Inc$301,705941%
Western Enterprise Fire Co No 4$301,705922%
Smithsburg Community Volunteer Fire Company Inc$301,704914%
Smithsburg Emergency Medical Services Inc$301,70499%
South Hagerstown Fire Company Inc$301,704959%
Sharpsburg Area Emergency Medical Service$301,70495%
Pioneer Hook & Ladder Company Inc$301,704957%
Boonsboro Ambulance and Rescue Service$301,70395%
The Leitersburg Volunteer Fire Company$301,703919%
Clear Spring Ambulance Club Inc$301,70396%
Williamsport Volunteer Fire & EMS Inc$301,70393%
Hancock Fire Company Inc$301,703912%
Longmeadow Volunteer Fire Company Inc$301,703911%
Mt Aetna Volunteer Fire Dept$301,703918%
Clear Spring Volunteer Fire Company$301,70398%
First Hose Company of Boonsboro Inc$301,70399%
Maugansville Goodwill Volunteer Fire Company$301,70399%
The Independent Junior Fire Engine Company No 3 of Hagerstown Maryland$301,703943%
Community Rescue Service Inc$301,70391%
First Hagerstown Hose Company$301,702951%
Funkstown Volunteer Fire Co Inc$301,702911%
Hancock Rescue Squad Inc$301,70295%
Community Volunteer Fire Company Inc of District No 12$275,136813%

Where it is load-bearing

Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAntietam Fire Company: $304,703 over 9y, 37% of budgetSharpsburg Volunteer Fire Co Inc: $301,705 over 9y, 11% of budgetVolunteer Fire Company of Halfway Md Inc: $301,705 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetPotomac Valley Fire Company Inc: $301,705 over 9y, 41% of budgetWestern Enterprise Fire Co No 4: $301,705 over 9y, 22% of budgetSmithsburg Community Volunteer Fire Company Inc: $301,704 over 9y, 14% of budgetSmithsburg Emergency Medical Services Inc: $301,704 over 9y, 8.8% of budgetSouth Hagerstown Fire Company Inc: $301,704 over 9y, 59% of budgetSharpsburg Area Emergency Medical Service: $301,704 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetPioneer Hook & Ladder Company Inc: $301,704 over 9y, 57% of budgetBoonsboro Ambulance and Rescue Service: $301,703 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetThe Leitersburg Volunteer Fire Company: $301,703 over 9y, 19% of budgetClear Spring Ambulance Club Inc: $301,703 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetWilliamsport Volunteer Fire & EMS Inc: $301,703 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetHancock Fire Company Inc: $301,703 over 9y, 12% of budgetLongmeadow Volunteer Fire Company Inc: $301,703 over 9y, 11% of budgetMt Aetna Volunteer Fire Dept: $301,703 over 9y, 18% of budgetClear Spring Volunteer Fire Company: $301,703 over 9y, 7.7% of budgetFirst Hose Company of Boonsboro Inc: $301,703 over 9y, 9.0% of budgetMaugansville Goodwill Volunteer Fire Company: $301,703 over 9y, 9.2% of budgetThe Independent Junior Fire Engine Company No 3 of Hagerstown Maryland: $301,703 over 9y, 43% of budgetCommunity Rescue Service Inc: $301,703 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetFirst Hagerstown Hose Company: $301,702 over 9y, 51% of budgetFunkstown Volunteer Fire Co Inc: $301,702 over 9y, 11% of budgetHancock Rescue Squad Inc: $301,702 over 9y, 5.2% of budgetCommunity Volunteer Fire Company Inc of District No 12: $275,136 over 8y, 13% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Iaff Local 1605 Found…The Community Foundat…Richard N Funkhouser …The Jone L Bowman Fou…Albert E & Naomi B Si…Amazonsmile Foundation
Iaff Local 1605 Foundation IncMD24.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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Find your warmest path to Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Inc

How much does Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Inc give?
Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Inc reported 26 grants totaling $966,897 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (100%).
Who are Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Antietam Fire Company ($305k), Sharpsburg Volunteer Fire Co Inc ($302k), Volunteer Fire Company of Halfway Md Inc ($302k).
Does Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Iaff Local 1605 Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc, Richard N Funkhouser Foundationinc.
Where is Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Inc based?
Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Inc is based in MD.

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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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