Maryland · Nonprofit
COBB ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND EMS
COBB ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND EMS (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200 to it, the largest being SYNCHRONY FOUNDATION ($200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COBB ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND EMS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 416 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 416 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Charles County Charitable Trustlocal
- Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Incportfolio match
- Nextdoor Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 92% · 2018 97% · 2019 89% · 2020 92% · 2021 92% · 2022 93% · 2023 97% · 2024 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of COBB ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND EMS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (71% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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 COBB ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND EMS’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
COBB ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND EMS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state in all.
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.
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.
- Charles County Charitable TrustlocalMD · funds 66 organizations near you
- Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nextdoor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fm Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leary Firefighters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mid-South Resource Conservation and Development Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gary Sinise Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pee Dee Electric Membership Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Fire Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- US Wind Force Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kathryn O'Connor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Government funding COBB ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND EMS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $371k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$371k
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 COBB ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND EMS
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 COBB ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND EMS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds COBB ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND EMS?
- COBB ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND EMS (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200 to it, the largest being SYNCHRONY FOUNDATION ($200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COBB ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND EMS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $200 in grants to COBB ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND EMS.
- Who is the largest funder of COBB ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND EMS?
- SYNCHRONY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COBB ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND EMS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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