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CLEAR SPRING AMBULANCE CLUB INC

CLEAR SPRING AMBULANCE CLUB INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $367,849 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION OF MD INC ($301,703). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.5M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$368k
Net assets
$1.8M
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Clear Spring Ambulance Club Inc does

Mission

None

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide ambulance service for the members of this association and the general public in the vicinity of clear spring, md. To engage in and carry on any other business which may be associated with operating an ambulance service

    $880,588 spent$329,008 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $880,588.

02The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($661k) Expenses 100 ($736k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 77 ($510k) Expenses 84 ($620k) Net assets 92 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 133 ($882k) Expenses 96 ($705k) Net assets 105 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 124 ($822k) Expenses 91 ($671k) Net assets 116 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 99 ($657k) Expenses 105 ($773k) Net assets 107 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 120 ($791k) Expenses 113 ($835k) Net assets 104 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 116 ($768k) Expenses 116 ($857k) Net assets 98 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 220 ($1.5M) Expenses 126 ($926k) Net assets 137 ($1.8M)
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Revenue (220)Expenses (126)Net assets (137)Peer revenue range

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 $1.3M to $1.9M (+39%).

$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.6M
$1.5M
$1.4M
$1.3M
$1.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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 59% · 2018 50% · 2019 65% · 2020 68% · 2021 47% · 2022 60% · 2023 49% · 2024 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

74% of CLEAR SPRING AMBULANCE CLUB INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$75k
’17
−$110k
’18
$176k
’19
$150k
’20
−$116k
’21
−$44k
’22
−$89k
’23
$526k
’24
17
months of
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.

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Listed77668777
Joined·+0+0+1+2+0+0+2
No longer listed·0110102
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $38k → $73k.

Funder
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'22
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total
funders
2
1
2
2
1
2
2
2
1

From the IRS filings of CLEAR SPRING AMBULANCE CLUB 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

CLEAR SPRING AMBULANCE CLUB INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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

82% 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 CLEAR SPRING AMBULANCE CLUB INC.

82%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 100% · 2019 90% · 2020 86% · 2021 100% · 2022 92% · 2023 55% — diversifying over time.

“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 CLEAR SPRING AMBULANCE CLUB INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

MD

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

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’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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CLEAR SPRING AMBULANCE CLUB INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin36% · top quartile
Months of reserve16.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like CLEAR SPRING AMBULANCE CLUB 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

Clear Spring Volunteer Fire Company82%Fallston Volunteer Fire & Ambulance77%Williamsport Volunteer Fire & EMS Inc77%The Pleasant Valley Comm Fire Co Inc77%Hereford Volunteer Ambulance Assoc Inc Dba Monkton Vol Emergency Services76%Sandy Spring Volunteer Fire Department Inc76%White Marsh Volunteer Fire Company75%Greensboro Volunteer Fire Company Inc75%

Nationally

Tracy Ambulance Service Inc83%Citizens Emergency Medical Service Inc83%Clear Spring Volunteer Fire Company82%Blairstown Ambulance Corps Inc82%Southern Clarion County Ambulance82%Charlestown Ambulance&Rescue Serviceinc82%Blanco Volunteer Ambulance Corps82%Cranbury First Aid Squad Inc82%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 4%Fundraising 1%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLEAR SPRING AMBULANCE CLUB 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 CLEAR SPRING AMBULANCE CLUB INC?
CLEAR SPRING AMBULANCE CLUB INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $367,849 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION OF MD INC ($301,703). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CLEAR SPRING AMBULANCE CLUB INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $367,849 in grants to CLEAR SPRING AMBULANCE CLUB INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CLEAR SPRING AMBULANCE CLUB INC?
WASHINGTON COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION OF MD INC is the largest funder on record, with $301,703 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CLEAR SPRING AMBULANCE CLUB 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 2 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