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FRYEBURG RESCUE ASSOCIATION

FRYEBURG RESCUE ASSOCIATION (Maine) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,531 to it, the largest being CLARENCE E MULFORD TRUST ($61,700). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$909k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$115k
Net assets
$1.3M
5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Fryeburg Rescue Association does

Mission

Rural area rescue squad for five towns.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization operates, supports, and facilitates the fryeburg, maine volunteer rescue squad through the purchase of equipment, supplies, and training for the squad and the conducting of other educational and supporting activities for the volunteers and area residents. The rescue squad's area includes the towns of fryeburg, stow, brownfield, and lovell, maine and chatham, nh.

    $818,215 spent$460,798 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $818,215.

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 ($495k) Expenses 100 ($461k) Net assets 100 ($784k)2018 Revenue 94 ($466k) Expenses 99 ($457k) Net assets 98 ($769k)2019 Revenue 106 ($523k) Expenses 100 ($463k) Net assets 108 ($844k)2020 Revenue 106 ($524k) Expenses 106 ($490k) Net assets 110 ($866k)2021 Revenue 122 ($604k) Expenses 118 ($544k) Net assets 119 ($935k)2022 Revenue 170 ($841k) Expenses 134 ($617k) Net assets 144 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 145 ($717k) Expenses 157 ($722k) Net assets 144 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 179 ($889k) Expenses 173 ($797k) Net assets 156 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 183 ($909k) Expenses 186 ($858k) Net assets 163 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (183)Expenses (186)Net assets (163)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 $1.1M to $1.3M (+15%).

$1.1M
$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.5M
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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 21% · 2018 27% · 2019 27% · 2020 34% · 2021 27% · 2022 39% · 2023 33% · 2024 42% · 2025 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

48% of FRYEBURG RESCUE ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$34k
’17
$9k
’18
$60k
’19
$34k
’20
$60k
’21
$224k
’22
−$6k
’23
$92k
’24
$51k
’25
6.9
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.

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Listed777777777
Joined·+2+2+0+0+0+2+1+2
No longer listed·22000212
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $15k → $21k.

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 FRYEBURG RESCUE ASSOCIATION’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

FRYEBURG RESCUE ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

44% 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 FRYEBURG RESCUE ASSOCIATION.

54%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 98% · 2022 66% · 2023 49% — 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

98% of FRYEBURG RESCUE ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Maine funders.

ME
NY
FL

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

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’23
Maine out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

FRYEBURG RESCUE ASSOCIATION has grown faster than half of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · below the median
Months of reserve6.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

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

Organizations like FRYEBURG RESCUE ASSOCIATION

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 Maine

Nationally

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

7
board members
71%
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

ME

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRYEBURG RESCUE ASSOCIATION?
FRYEBURG RESCUE ASSOCIATION (Maine) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,531 to it, the largest being CLARENCE E MULFORD TRUST ($61,700). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRYEBURG RESCUE ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $114,531 in grants to FRYEBURG RESCUE ASSOCIATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRYEBURG RESCUE ASSOCIATION?
CLARENCE E MULFORD TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $61,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRYEBURG RESCUE ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 7 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