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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $200
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Cobb Island Volunteer Fire Department and EMS does
Mission
The primary mission of the Cobb Island Volunteer Fire Department and EMS is to provide a variety of services designed to protect the lives and porperty of our community we so proudly serve, by providing prompt and professional services in the event of fire, medical emergencies and disasters or any other event which may threaten the public welfare
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Fire fighting and rescue squad services
$574,767 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $574,767.
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 2024 to 2025, from $6.0M to $6.4M (+7%).
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 (69% 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
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
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.
Against its field
COBB ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND EMS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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
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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 1 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