Illinois · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQ
WASHINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQ (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,189 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON ILLINOIS AREA FOUNDATION ($7,989). 0 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.
Against its field
WASHINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQ holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 416 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 416 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Bartman Foundationshared funders
- Nextdoor Foundationportfolio match
- Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Incportfolio 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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: 2020 1% · 2021 9% · 2022 6% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of WASHINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQ’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (71% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $200.
1 of 2 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 WASHINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQ’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
WASHINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQ 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
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 WASHINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQ.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 WASHINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQ'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 $200 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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.
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.
- Bartman Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 6 organizations that share your funders
- Nextdoor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fm Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association of Md Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leary Firefighters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pee Dee Electric Membership Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gary Sinise Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scott Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Albert E & Naomi B Sinnisen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shingleton Tuwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Juniper 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 WASHINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQ receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $679k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$679k
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 WASHINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQ
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
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 WASHINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQ: 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 WASHINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQ?
- WASHINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQ (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,189 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON ILLINOIS AREA FOUNDATION ($7,989). 0 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 WASHINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQ have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $8,189 in grants to WASHINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQ.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQ?
- WASHINGTON ILLINOIS AREA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,989 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESCUE SQ find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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