Maryland · Nonprofit
HEREFORD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
HEREFORD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,828 to it, the largest being DAVID W BUCK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($4,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $663k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What Hereford Volunteer Fire Company Inc does
Mission
Fire and rescue service
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Fire and rescue service for the entire community
$272,827 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $272,827.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $7.3M to $7.8M (+7%).
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: 2019 28% · 2020 31% · 2021 23% · 2022 180% · 2023 33% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of HEREFORD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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 broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $500 → $535.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 HEREFORD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 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
HEREFORD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 87% · 2022 75% · 2023 93% — 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 HEREFORD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 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. $228 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
HEREFORD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 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 HEREFORD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 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
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 HEREFORD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 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 HEREFORD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC?
- HEREFORD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,828 to it, the largest being DAVID W BUCK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($4,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEREFORD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $4,828 in grants to HEREFORD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEREFORD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC?
- DAVID W BUCK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEREFORD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 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 2019–2024), 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