Maryland · Nonprofit
OAKLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
OAKLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,041 to it, the largest being NISOURCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($12,300). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $470k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Oakland Volunteer Fire Department Inc does
Mission
Providing fire protection to the residents of oakland, md and surrounding areas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To provide fire protection and related services to the residents of oakland, md and surrounding communities.
$328,787 spent$22,328 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $328,787.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.5M to $2.1M (+41%).
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 49% · 2018 81% · 2019 63% · 2020 71% · 2021 58% · 2022 58% · 2023 38% · 2024 41% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of OAKLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $62 → $16k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 OAKLAND 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
OAKLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
48% 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 OAKLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 73% — 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
OAKLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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
OAKLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC runs a healthier operating margin 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 OAKLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $308k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$308k
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 OAKLAND 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
93%
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 OAKLAND 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 OAKLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- OAKLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,041 to it, the largest being NISOURCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($12,300). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OAKLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $24,041 in grants to OAKLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OAKLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- NISOURCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OAKLAND 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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