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DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC

DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,042,981 to it, the largest being FRIENDS OF POST 53 INC ($599,142). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.6M
Funders on record
44
Grants received
$2.0M
Net assets
$12M
36/44 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Darien EMS Post 53 Inc does

Mission

The mission of post 53 is to provide emergency medical services to the darien community at the highest level of excellence, using darien high school students and adult volunteers.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Darien ems post 53, inc dedicates itself to providing timely, quality emergency medical care and transportation to the town of darien ct.in the last year dems responded to over 1,800 calls for help of which approx. 600 were medic transports. Dems had an average response time of 6.2 minutes.in addition to the program service revenue and expenses above, friends of post 53, inc donated use of building located at 0 ledge road, darien, ct having a market value of $231,464.

    $1,207,686 spent$577,139 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,207,686.

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 ($963k) Expenses 100 ($810k) Net assets 100 ($7.7M)2018 Revenue 92 ($884k) Expenses 106 ($858k) Net assets 94 ($7.3M)2019 Revenue 76 ($727k) Expenses 131 ($1.1M) Net assets 107 ($8.2M)2020 Revenue 84 ($807k) Expenses 122 ($985k) Net assets 118 ($9.1M)2021 Revenue 107 ($1.0M) Expenses 140 ($1.1M) Net assets 133 ($10M)2022 Revenue 87 ($836k) Expenses 158 ($1.3M) Net assets 111 ($8.6M)2023 Revenue 88 ($848k) Expenses 158 ($1.3M) Net assets 122 ($9.4M)2024 Revenue 157 ($1.5M) Expenses 166 ($1.3M) Net assets 143 ($11M)2025 Revenue 168 ($1.6M) Expenses 177 ($1.4M) Net assets 162 ($12M)
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Revenue (168)Expenses (177)Net assets (162)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 $9.4M to $11M (+19%).

$7.8M
$7.3M
$8.2M
$9.1M
$10M
$8.7M
$9.4M
$11M
$13M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

59% of DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,632 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$153k
’17
$27k
’18
−$331k
’19
−$178k
’20
−$108k
’21
−$446k
’22
−$435k
’23
$170k
’24
$185k
’25
6.0
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.

Chief executive

Joseph Larcheveque

Executive director

Board chair

Petter Ostberg

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed151717161211141415
Joined·+6+3+0+4+1+7+0+2
No longer listed·43182401
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $50k → $119k.

11 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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

DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

61% 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 DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC.

29%
largest funder
64%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 93% · 2019 74% · 2020 67% · 2021 42% · 2022 29% · 2023 16% — 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.

How long its funders stay

57% of DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

92% of DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

ME
MN
NY
PA
CT
RI
VA
DE
NC
FL

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

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $569k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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

DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve6.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 12%Fundraising 4%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CT

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Friends of Post 53 Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC?
DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,042,981 to it, the largest being FRIENDS OF POST 53 INC ($599,142). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC have?
IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $2,042,981 in grants to DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC?
FRIENDS OF POST 53 INC is the largest funder on record, with $599,142 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 44 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing