Maryland · Nonprofit
CLEAR SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY
CLEAR SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY (Maryland) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $381,252 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION OF MD INC ($301,703). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $698k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $381k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Clear Spring Volunteer Fire Company does
Mission
Volunteer fire company
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Volunteer fire company - town of clear spring, maryland and surrounding community
$541,591 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $541,591.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.4M to $3.2M (+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 32% · 2018 46% · 2019 61% · 2020 64% · 2021 41% · 2022 74% · 2023 71% · 2024 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of CLEAR SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY’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. 4 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $37k → $62k.
From the IRS filings of CLEAR SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 funders by total. 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 VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 100% · 2019 79% · 2020 89% · 2021 93% · 2022 84% · 2023 65% — 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 VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
CLEAR SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding CLEAR SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $94k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$94k
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 CLEAR SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 CLEAR SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: 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 VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY?
- CLEAR SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY (Maryland) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $381,252 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION OF MD INC ($301,703). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLEAR SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $381,252 in grants to CLEAR SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLEAR SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY?
- 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 VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 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 7 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