North Carolina · Nonprofit
SOUTH ORANGE RESCUE SQUAD INC
SOUTH ORANGE RESCUE SQUAD INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,567 to it, the largest being Winston Family Foundation ($65,351). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $522k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $136k
- Net assets
- $943k
What South Orange Rescue Squad Inc does
Mission
It is the mission of the south orange rescue squad to foster high professional standards and acts of service by our membership to our community for the provision of emergency medical and technical rescue services. We carry out these spirited goals by organizing local residents and students, providing training and coordinating the provision of services in conjunction with established professional agencies in orange county, north carolina, and with the university of north carolina at chapel hill.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The sors emergency medical services (ems) division runs a basic life support ambulance with two emts every night of the week as part of the orange county 911 system. The division also provides standby ems coverage at all unc-chapel hill football, men's basketball games and selected post-season games, plus special events such as high school football games, 5ks and community festivals in the carrboro-chapel hill area.
$83,295 spent$427,998 earned by the program77% of program spendingThe technical rescue team (trt) focuses on specific disciplines such as swiftwater rescue, land search and rescue, and high-angle rescue. The trt collaborates with local and state agencies to respond to emergencies in orange county and across the state.
$18,703 spent17% of program spendingThe cpr and community education division increases community readiness by delivering free cpr/aed, first aid and stop-the-bleed classes to individuals, groups and businesses in orange county. Our certified and experienced instructors also provide training and continuing education for people seeking certification, including healthcare professionals.
$6,502 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $108,500.
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 2024 to 2025, from $786k to $996k (+27%).
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 6% · 2020 9% · 2021 6% · 2023 41% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of SOUTH ORANGE RESCUE SQUAD 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. 3 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Fred Stipe
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $200 → $10k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 SOUTH ORANGE RESCUE SQUAD 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
SOUTH ORANGE RESCUE SQUAD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
36% 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 SOUTH ORANGE RESCUE SQUAD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 95% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 97% — growing more concentrated.
“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
SOUTH ORANGE RESCUE SQUAD INC draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k 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
SOUTH ORANGE RESCUE SQUAD INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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
Organizations like SOUTH ORANGE RESCUE SQUAD 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
33% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 SOUTH ORANGE RESCUE SQUAD 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 SOUTH ORANGE RESCUE SQUAD INC?
- SOUTH ORANGE RESCUE SQUAD INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,567 to it, the largest being Winston Family Foundation ($65,351). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTH ORANGE RESCUE SQUAD INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $135,567 in grants to SOUTH ORANGE RESCUE SQUAD INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH ORANGE RESCUE SQUAD INC?
- Winston Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $65,351 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH ORANGE RESCUE SQUAD INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 7 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