Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Inc

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Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Inc

Q: 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%).

Q: 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).

Q: 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.

Q: 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.

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

$967k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$37k

Largest

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 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$7.8M

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$37,188

Median grant

States reached

$876k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SHARPSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY	$37,189
SHARPSBURG AREA EMERGENCY SERVICE INC	$37,189
SMITHSBURG EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC	$37,189
COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE CO OF DISTRICT 12	$37,189
SOUTH HAGERSTOWN ENG 5	$37,189
POTOMAC VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC	$37,189
VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF HALFWAY MD INC	$37,189
WESTERN ENTERPRISE FIRE COMPANY	$37,189
SMITHSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC	$37,189
LEITERSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC	$37,188
CLEAR SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC	$37,188
FIRST HAGERSTOWN HOSE COMPANY	$37,188
CLEAR SPRING AMBULANCE CLUB INC	$37,188
HANCOCK FIRE COMPANY INC	$37,188
INDEPENDENT JUNIOR FIRE COMPANY ENG NO 3 OF HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND	$37,188

02The need

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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 0%.

Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Inclessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$7.8M · 26 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.8M

Still filing today

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 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

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

AF
ANTIETAM FIRE COMPANY
9× · 2017–2025 · $305k · revenue +159% · 37% of their budget
SV
SHARPSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $302k · revenue +168%
VF
VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF HALFWAY MD INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $302k · revenue +48%

Funded once

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.

Shepherdstown Fire Department

Provides fire protection and ambulance service

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Romney Volunteer Fire Company

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

Public Safety & Disaster

Flemington Volunteer Fire Department Inc

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

—

Federalsburg Volunteer Fire Co Inc

Provide emergency fire and ambulance service to the community of federalsburg.

—

Duncannon Fire Company No 1 Inc

Provide Fire Prevention & Protection Services

—

Huntingtown Volunteer Fire Department

Fire, Rescue & Emergency Medical Services

Public Safety & Disaster

Bethlehem Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer Fire Dept

—

Burnsville Volunteer Fire Department

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.

Public Safety & Disaster

Fisherville Volunteer Fire Co

Fire protection.

Public Safety & Disaster

Lewisburg Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Fire protection for the City of Lewisburg, WV and surrounding areas

—

Fairmont-Hahntown Volunteer Fire Dept

Volunteer Firefighting

Public Safety & Disaster

Pocomoke City Volunteer Fire Co Inc

To provide fire safety to the pocomoke city community.

Public Safety & Disaster

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Hagerstown Fire Company Inc; 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.

05the grantee network

26 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.

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

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

25/26

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Public Safety & Disaster$4,501,984Other$1,810,221Health$1,206,813Recreation & Sports$301,703

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

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 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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