Alabama · Nonprofit
BLOUNT COUNTY FIRE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION
BLOUNT COUNTY FIRE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,311 to it, the largest being CAWACO RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ($10,311). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $83k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $29k
What Blount County Fire and Emergency Medical Services Association does
Mission
Coordinate and facilitate the efforts of organized fire departments and rescue squads in blount county, alabama. Provide training for firefighters, ems, and rescue personnel in blount county as well as other alabama county personnel as needed. Provide special operations (hazardous material and/or technical rescue) response as is necessary to alleviate hazards to the public, other firefighters, or the environment in blount county or other jurisdictions as requested. Educate the public of the hazards of fire and smoke, the protection available to the individual with the proper use and maintenance of smoke detectors and fire extinguishers, the principles of fire prevention and the hazards of improper storage and handling of flammable and other hazardous materials. Educate the public about trauma, burns, cardiac, and other medical conditions, prevention, as well as awareness of signs and symptoms of these conditions and to call 911. The association in its activities shall not be partisan,
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Coordinate efforts of local fire departments and emergency medical service organizations; assist in providing training, education, and special operations response as necessary; public education programs.
$84,187 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $84,187.
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 2023 to 2024, from $20k to $38k (+92%).
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: 2017 82% · 2018 89% · 2019 88% · 2020 82% · 2021 99% · 2022 86% · 2023 82% · 2024 85% · 2025 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BLOUNT COUNTY FIRE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Clay Jones
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BLOUNT COUNTY FIRE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of BLOUNT COUNTY FIRE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
BLOUNT COUNTY FIRE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION has grown faster than half of the 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BLOUNT COUNTY FIRE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 BLOUNT COUNTY FIRE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION: 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 BLOUNT COUNTY FIRE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION?
- BLOUNT COUNTY FIRE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,311 to it, the largest being CAWACO RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ($10,311). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLOUNT COUNTY FIRE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,311 in grants to BLOUNT COUNTY FIRE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of BLOUNT COUNTY FIRE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION?
- CAWACO RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,311 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLOUNT COUNTY FIRE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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