Maryland · Nonprofit
GRASONVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
GRASONVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,345 to it, the largest being MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($82,645). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $852k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $127k
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Grasonville Volunteer Fire Department Inc does
Mission
Provides firefighting and emergency medical services, education for fire prevention, and the facility serves as a community center or shelter during emergencies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Volunteer fire company providing firefighing and emergency medical services at a much reduced cost to the surrounding community of 12,000 inhabitants.
$389,463 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $389,463.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.0M to $5.3M (+33%).
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 69% · 2018 58% · 2019 69% · 2020 69% · 2021 63% · 2022 56% · 2023 71% · 2024 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of GRASONVILLE VOLUNTEER 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. 0 of the last 8 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $100 → $95k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 GRASONVILLE VOLUNTEER 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
GRASONVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 GRASONVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 87% — 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
90% of GRASONVILLE VOLUNTEER 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 $13k 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. $114k 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.
Against its field
GRASONVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GRASONVILLE VOLUNTEER 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GRASONVILLE VOLUNTEER 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 GRASONVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- GRASONVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,345 to it, the largest being MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($82,645). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GRASONVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $127,345 in grants to GRASONVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRASONVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $82,645 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRASONVILLE VOLUNTEER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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