Maryland · Nonprofit
ST MICHAELS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
ST MICHAELS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Maryland) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $256,450 to it, the largest being SACHS FUND ($207,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $256k
- Net assets
- $6.5M
What St Michaels Fire Department Inc does
Mission
To provide fire and ambulance service
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Provide fire protection and ambulance services to st michaels and surrounding areas.
$495,054 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $495,054.
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 2018 to 2019, from $4.0M to $4.7M (+18%).
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 54% · 2018 29% · 2019 21% · 2020 48% · 2021 42% · 2022 51% · 2023 63% · 2024 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $2k → $11k.
From the IRS filings of ST MICHAELS 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
ST MICHAELS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 100% · 2019 74% · 2020 44% · 2021 60% · 2022 77% · 2023 46% — 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
50% of ST MICHAELS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
97% of ST MICHAELS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC'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.
Government funding ST MICHAELS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $52k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$52k
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 ST MICHAELS 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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ST MICHAELS 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 ST MICHAELS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- ST MICHAELS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Maryland) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $256,450 to it, the largest being SACHS FUND ($207,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST MICHAELS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $256,450 in grants to ST MICHAELS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST MICHAELS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- SACHS FUND is the largest funder on record, with $207,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST MICHAELS 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.
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 13 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