Maryland · Nonprofit
RESCUE FIRE CO
RESCUE FIRE CO (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being THE NATHAN FOUNDATION INC IMA CO ROBERT S ($17,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $126k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $18k
- Net assets
- $901k
What Rescue Fire Co does
Mission
Rescue Fire Company is a volunteer fire company dependent upon community fianacial support. All revenue producing activities are conducted to collect current and future support.it's primary purpose is to provide public safety and fire fighting to the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
983 fire responses and medical assistance
$112,691 spent100% of program spending983 fire response and medical assist
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $112,691.
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 2018 to 2019, from $390k to $792k (+103%).
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 48% · 2018 47% · 2019 50% · 2020 55% · 2021 50% · 2022 58% · 2023 14% · 2024 50% · 2025 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
116% of RESCUE FIRE CO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $3k.
From the IRS filings of RESCUE FIRE CO’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.
Where its funders are
100% of RESCUE FIRE CO's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
RESCUE FIRE CO holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,208 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,208 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like RESCUE FIRE CO
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
82%
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 RESCUE FIRE CO: 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 RESCUE FIRE CO?
- RESCUE FIRE CO (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being THE NATHAN FOUNDATION INC IMA CO ROBERT S ($17,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RESCUE FIRE CO have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $17,500 in grants to RESCUE FIRE CO, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RESCUE FIRE CO?
- THE NATHAN FOUNDATION INC IMA CO ROBERT S is the largest funder on record, with $17,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RESCUE FIRE CO 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 1 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing