Maryland · Nonprofit
FRUITLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC
FRUITLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,200 to it, the largest being IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN OF MD 149 ($9,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $6.5M
What Fruitland Volunteer Fire Co Inc does
Mission
Fire rescue, fire fighting, ambulance and emt services
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
The organization maintains fire trucks, ambulance, and equipment in good working order to safeguard the lives and homes of persons in the vicinity of fruitland. They also provide ambulance services that includes trained emergency medical services personnel to the people of the community. Members meet on a regular basis to provide training in fire fighting and life saving procedures. They maintain fellowship activities with other local fire companies to exchange knowledge and ideas. The organization promotes socialization among members of the community with the goal of recruiting new members and retaining current members to volunteer their time and efforts to fire fighting and life saving duties. The organization provides fire prevention information to the people it serves.
$1,324,222 spent$436,594 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,324,222.
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 $5.5M to $6.5M (+19%).
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 45% · 2018 53% · 2019 53% · 2020 47% · 2021 79% · 2022 63% · 2023 78% · 2024 59% · 2025 59% · 2026 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of FRUITLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (70% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 10 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $6k.
From the IRS filings of FRUITLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE CO 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
FRUITLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% 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
45% 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 FRUITLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 90% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 84% — 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.
Where its funders are
74% of FRUITLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
FRUITLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Government funding FRUITLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $38k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$38k
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 FRUITLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE CO 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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
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 FRUITLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE CO 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 FRUITLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC?
- FRUITLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,200 to it, the largest being IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN OF MD 149 ($9,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRUITLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $20,200 in grants to FRUITLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRUITLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC?
- IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN OF MD 149 is the largest funder on record, with $9,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRUITLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE CO 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing