Maryland · Nonprofit
Berwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc
Berwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,217 to it, the largest being THE LEARY FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION ($7,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $900k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $9k
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Berwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc does
Mission
Operation of a volunteer fire department and rescue squad for the citizens of the Town of Berwyn Heights, MD
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Operation of volunteer fire dept for the benefit of the Town of Berwyn Heights. Dept apparatus responded to the following calls in 2024: Squad 1867; Ambulance 2591, Paramedic Ambulance and Ladder Truck 1485.
$535,742 spent$284,046 earned by the program77% of program spendingBerwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Dept & Rescue Squad was awarded a grant through the US Dept of Homeland Security's Staffing for Adequate Fire & Emergency Response(SAFER) program.
$158,560 spent23% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $694,302.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.6M to $4.5M (+23%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 10% · 2022 11% · 2023 16% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of Berwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $136 → $127.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Berwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Berwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Berwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 97% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
Berwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $717 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Berwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Berwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $612k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$612k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Berwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Berwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Berwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc?
- Berwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,217 to it, the largest being THE LEARY FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION ($7,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Berwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $9,217 in grants to Berwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Berwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc?
- THE LEARY FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Berwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing