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SECOND ALARMER'S ASSOCIATION & RESCUE SQUAD OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY
SECOND ALARMER'S ASSOCIATION & RESCUE SQUAD OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,602 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jerseyshared funders
- Izzo Family Foundationportfolio match
- Paul V and Margaret H Renoff Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2018 0% · 2020 16% · 2021 1% · 2022 11% · 2023 5% · 2024 4%. 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $50k → $322.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 SECOND ALARMER'S ASSOCIATION & RESCUE SQUAD OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY’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
SECOND ALARMER'S ASSOCIATION & RESCUE SQUAD OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
98% 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 SECOND ALARMER'S ASSOCIATION & RESCUE SQUAD OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 76% · 2022 76% · 2023 56% — 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 SECOND ALARMER'S ASSOCIATION & RESCUE SQUAD OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jerseyshared fundersPA · backs 106 organizations that share your funders
- Izzo Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Paul V and Margaret H Renoff Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oliver B Merlyn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Smeco Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Samuel L Schloss Family Foundation Tr Schlossburke K Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Aladdin Shriners Hospital Association for Children Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Health Care Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scott Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The S Adam Schloss Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asplundh Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Texas Medical Association Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding SECOND ALARMER'S ASSOCIATION & RESCUE SQUAD OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$35k
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 SECOND ALARMER'S ASSOCIATION & RESCUE SQUAD OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 SECOND ALARMER'S ASSOCIATION & RESCUE SQUAD OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SECOND ALARMER'S ASSOCIATION & RESCUE SQUAD OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY?
- SECOND ALARMER'S ASSOCIATION & RESCUE SQUAD OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,602 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SECOND ALARMER'S ASSOCIATION & RESCUE SQUAD OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $51,602 in grants to SECOND ALARMER'S ASSOCIATION & RESCUE SQUAD OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SECOND ALARMER'S ASSOCIATION & RESCUE SQUAD OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY?
- THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SECOND ALARMER'S ASSOCIATION & RESCUE SQUAD OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing