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OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY
OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY (Maryland) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $269,446 to it, the largest being Robert I Schattner Foundation Inc aka Schattner Foundation ($70,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $269k
- Net assets
- $7.1M
What Ocean City Volunteer Fire Company Ocean City Volunteer Fire Company does
Mission
To support volunteer fire fighters, fire extinguishment, and fire prevention
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
Volunteer fire protection services provide training and school drills. Respond to emergency calls.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $6.7M to $8.1M (+21%).
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 40% · 2018 47% · 2019 45% · 2020 43% · 2021 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $6k → $37k.
3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY’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
OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
28% 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 OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 87% · 2019 55% · 2020 47% · 2021 53% · 2022 56% · 2023 68% — 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.
How long its funders stay
56% of OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
55% of OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: 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 OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY?
- OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY (Maryland) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $269,446 to it, the largest being Robert I Schattner Foundation Inc aka Schattner Foundation ($70,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $269,446 in grants to OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY?
- Robert I Schattner Foundation Inc aka Schattner Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 19 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