Maryland · Nonprofit
BURTONSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
BURTONSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,215 to it, the largest being CARMAX FOUNDATION ($3,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Burtonsville Volunteer Fire Department Inc does
Mission
Community response for emergency services, including fire suppression, rescue and emergency medical services, provide community risk assessment and education, provide training, education and support to volunteers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community emergency response and education - community response for emergency services, including fire suppression, rescue, and emergency medical services as well as public safety education. In 2025 our station responded to over 7000 calls for service from our community, and provided public safety information through our open house and other community events to thousands of local residents.
$980,194 spent95% of program spendingVolunteer support services - support services for our 100+ volunteer first responders, life, and associate members.
$35,949 spentof which $250 as grants3% of program spendingTraining, education, and support of volunteer fire suppression and emergency medical personnel
$13,132 spent1% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,029,275.
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.
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 $2.1M to $2.8M (+32%).
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 64% · 2018 56% · 2019 60% · 2020 66% · 2021 58% · 2022 54% · 2023 75% · 2024 34% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $159.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 BURTONSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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
BURTONSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 65% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
BURTONSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $665 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.
Government funding BURTONSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $848k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$848k
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 BURTONSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BURTONSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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 BURTONSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- BURTONSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,215 to it, the largest being CARMAX FOUNDATION ($3,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BURTONSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $4,215 in grants to BURTONSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BURTONSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- CARMAX FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BURTONSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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