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ELLERSLIE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY I

ELLERSLIE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY I (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,079 to it, the largest being SCOTT FOUNDATION INC ($12,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$487k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$27k
Net assets
$1.4M
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Ellerslie Volunteer Fire Company I does

Mission

The mission of the Ellerslie Volunteer Fire Company Inc. Is to provide high quality emergency medical and fire suppression and rescue services through the skill, commitment, and cooperative team effort of our volunteers.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Fire and rescue missions

    $204,483 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $204,483.

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 ($298k) Expenses 100 ($126k) Net assets 100 ($288k)2018 Revenue 48 ($145k) Expenses 101 ($128k) Net assets 101 ($292k)2019 Revenue 42 ($126k) Expenses 98 ($124k) Net assets 108 ($310k)2020 Revenue 104 ($310k) Expenses 80 ($100k) Net assets 184 ($528k)2021 Revenue 40 ($119k) Expenses 69 ($87k) Net assets 199 ($573k)2022 Revenue 103 ($309k) Expenses 73 ($92k) Net assets 263 ($758k)2023 Revenue 102 ($303k) Expenses 105 ($133k) Net assets 328 ($943k)2024 Revenue 120 ($357k) Expenses 130 ($164k) Net assets 401 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 163 ($487k) Expenses 170 ($214k) Net assets 498 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (163)Expenses (170)Net assets (498)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 2021 to 2022, from $573k to $1.2M (+117%).

$369k
$337k
$316k
$528k
$573k
$1.2M
$1.5M
$1.6M
$1.6M
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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: 2017 84% · 2020 34% · 2021 16% · 2022 45% · 2023 30% · 2024 28% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

22% of ELLERSLIE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY I’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,485 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$172k
’17
$17k
’18
$2k
’19
$210k
’20
$31k
’21
$216k
’22
$171k
’23
$193k
’24
$273k
’25
15
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.

2017202020212022202320242025
Listed12111111101414
Joined··+0+0+0+5+1
No longer listed··00111
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $17k → $5k.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ELLERSLIE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY I’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

ELLERSLIE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY I leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

44%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 71% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

ELLERSLIE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY I draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states in all.

OH
PA

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

’20
’22
’23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

ELLERSLIE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY I runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin56% · top quartile
Months of reserve15.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like ELLERSLIE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY I

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.

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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 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

24
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

85%

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 ELLERSLIE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY I: 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 ELLERSLIE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY I?
ELLERSLIE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY I (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,079 to it, the largest being SCOTT FOUNDATION INC ($12,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ELLERSLIE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY I have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $27,079 in grants to ELLERSLIE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY I, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ELLERSLIE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY I?
SCOTT FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ELLERSLIE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY I 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 4 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