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THE INDEPENDENT JUNIOR FIRE ENGINE COMPANY NO 3 OF HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND
THE INDEPENDENT JUNIOR FIRE ENGINE COMPANY NO 3 OF HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $309,303 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION OF MD INC ($301,703). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Albert E & Naomi B Sinnisen Foundationshared funderslocal
- Nextdoor Foundationportfolio match
- The Leary Firefighters 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: 2017 71% · 2023 98% · 2024 83%. 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $30k → $40k.
From the IRS filings of THE INDEPENDENT JUNIOR FIRE ENGINE COMPANY NO 3 OF HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND’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
THE INDEPENDENT JUNIOR FIRE ENGINE COMPANY NO 3 OF HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 THE INDEPENDENT JUNIOR FIRE ENGINE COMPANY NO 3 OF HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 100% · 2019 89% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
100% of THE INDEPENDENT JUNIOR FIRE ENGINE COMPANY NO 3 OF HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND'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.
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. Your 2 funders put you under-funded among the 25 organizations that share them.
- Albert E & Naomi B Sinnisen Foundationshared funderslocalMD · backs 4 organizations that share your funders · funds 20 organizations near you
- Nextdoor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leary Firefighters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fm Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pee Dee Electric Membership Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South River Emc Community Assistance Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jt-Minnie Maude Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mid-South Resource Conservation and Development Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gary Sinise Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scott Foundation Incportfolio 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.
Organizations like THE INDEPENDENT JUNIOR FIRE ENGINE COMPANY NO 3 OF HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 THE INDEPENDENT JUNIOR FIRE ENGINE COMPANY NO 3 OF HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND: 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 THE INDEPENDENT JUNIOR FIRE ENGINE COMPANY NO 3 OF HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND?
- THE INDEPENDENT JUNIOR FIRE ENGINE COMPANY NO 3 OF HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $309,303 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION OF MD INC ($301,703). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE INDEPENDENT JUNIOR FIRE ENGINE COMPANY NO 3 OF HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $309,303 in grants to THE INDEPENDENT JUNIOR FIRE ENGINE COMPANY NO 3 OF HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE INDEPENDENT JUNIOR FIRE ENGINE COMPANY NO 3 OF HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND?
- WASHINGTON COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION OF MD INC is the largest funder on record, with $301,703 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE INDEPENDENT JUNIOR FIRE ENGINE COMPANY NO 3 OF HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND 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 2funders 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