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CHESTERTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC

CHESTERTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,250 to it, the largest being DAVID A BRAMBLE FOUNDATION INC ($11,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$549k
Revenue FY2024
2
Funders on record
$11k
Grants received
$3.9M
Net assets
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($452k) Expenses 100 ($409k) Net assets 100 ($2.7M)2018 Revenue 88 ($398k) Expenses 92 ($375k) Net assets 94 ($2.5M)2019 Revenue 88 ($398k) Expenses 92 ($378k) Net assets 103 ($2.8M)2020 Revenue 96 ($433k) Expenses 101 ($414k) Net assets 112 ($3.0M)2021 Revenue 125 ($568k) Expenses 90 ($369k) Net assets 125 ($3.4M)2022 Revenue 83 ($377k) Expenses 115 ($471k) Net assets 123 ($3.3M)2023 Revenue 158 ($714k) Expenses 123 ($504k) Net assets 140 ($3.8M)2024 Revenue 121 ($549k) Expenses 132 ($538k) Net assets 147 ($3.9M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (121)Expenses (132)Net assets (147)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 46% · 2018 53% · 2019 53% · 2020 49% · 2021 42% · 2022 59% · 2023 69% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$43k
’17
$23k
’18
$20k
’19
$19k
’20
$198k
’21
−$93k
’22
$210k
’23
$10k
’24
10
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $2k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of CHESTERTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 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

CHESTERTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 80% · 2022 100% · 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

100% of CHESTERTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Maryland out of state home

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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CHESTERTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Maryland

Denton Volunteer Fire Company83%Federalsburg Volunteer Fire Co Inc81%Friendsville Volunteer Fire & Rescue Depart Inc81%Sharpsburg Volunteer Fire Co Inc81%Butler Volunteer Fire Company81%The Chestnut Ridge Vol Fire Company80%Community Volunteer Fire Department of Bowleys Quarters & Vicinity Inc80%Charles County Volunteer Firemens Association Inc80%

Nationally

Chester Township Fire Company87%Denton Volunteer Fire Company83%Cecil Township Volunteer Fire Company No 1 Inc of Lawrence83%Centreville Volunteer Fire Department Inc83%Hecktown Volunteer Fire Company83%Dagsboro Volunteer Fire Dept I83%Cotton Volunteer Fire Department Inc82%Chatham Township Volunteer Fire Dept82%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 1%Fundraising 1%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHESTERTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 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 CHESTERTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC?
CHESTERTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,250 to it, the largest being DAVID A BRAMBLE FOUNDATION INC ($11,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHESTERTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $11,250 in grants to CHESTERTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHESTERTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC?
DAVID A BRAMBLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHESTERTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 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.

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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing