Maryland · Nonprofit
FIFTH DISTRICT VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
FIFTH DISTRICT VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,399 to it, the largest being TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($22,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $647k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $22k
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Fifth District Vol Fire Department Inc does
Mission
The object and purpose of this organization is to protect all persons and property in the fifth district of howard county, maryland and such nearby territory as is within its reach, from the consequences of fire and accident.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Operations: operated three fire engines, two ambulances, water tanker, brush fire vehicle, and five staff/utility vehicles. During the current fiscal year the organization had 2,777 responses of various types.
$504,444 spent100% of program spendingFire prevention: provided fire prevention literature, demonstrations and school visits.
$0 spent0% of program spendingTraining: continuing education seminars for fire department instructors, maryland conference for local fire concerns, and basic local training activities for local and national certification.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $504,444.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4.8M to $7.8M (+63%).
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 65% · 2018 77% · 2019 59% · 2020 72% · 2021 45% · 2022 77% · 2023 61% · 2024 32% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of FIFTH DISTRICT VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $199 → $50.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 FIFTH DISTRICT VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’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
FIFTH DISTRICT VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 FIFTH DISTRICT VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2020 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
98% of FIFTH DISTRICT VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $399 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k 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.
Against its field
FIFTH DISTRICT VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding FIFTH DISTRICT VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $67k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$67k
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 FIFTH DISTRICT VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Fifth District Volunteer Title Holding Company · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIFTH DISTRICT VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: 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 FIFTH DISTRICT VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- FIFTH DISTRICT VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,399 to it, the largest being TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($22,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FIFTH DISTRICT VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $22,399 in grants to FIFTH DISTRICT VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIFTH DISTRICT VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $22,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIFTH DISTRICT VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC 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 3 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