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WATAUGA COUNTY EMERGENCY AND RESCUE SQUAD INC

WATAUGA COUNTY EMERGENCY AND RESCUE SQUAD INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,581 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($10,200). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$393k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$23k
Net assets
$488k
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Watauga County Emergency and Rescue Squad Inc does

Mission

To provide emergency & rescue services and safety education within watauga county.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Emergency and rescue services to the public of watauga county

    $291,783 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $291,783.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($240k) Expenses 100 ($184k) Net assets 100 ($147k)2018 Revenue 94 ($226k) Expenses 104 ($191k) Net assets 124 ($182k)2019 Revenue 87 ($209k) Expenses 109 ($201k) Net assets 129 ($190k)2020 Revenue 89 ($215k) Expenses 108 ($199k) Net assets 140 ($207k)2021 Revenue 85 ($204k) Expenses 112 ($205k) Net assets 140 ($206k)2022 Revenue 104 ($251k) Expenses 109 ($201k) Net assets 153 ($226k)2023 Revenue 127 ($305k) Expenses 107 ($197k) Net assets 223 ($328k)2024 Revenue 139 ($335k) Expenses 143 ($264k) Net assets 263 ($387k)2025 Revenue 164 ($393k) Expenses 158 ($292k) Net assets 332 ($488k)
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Revenue (164)Expenses (158)Net assets (332)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $401k to $490k (+22%).

$378k
$393k
$373k
$358k
$326k
$345k
$401k
$490k
$488k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 50% · 2018 45% · 2019 45% · 2020 45% · 2021 51% · 2022 52% · 2023 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

56% of WATAUGA COUNTY EMERGENCY AND RESCUE SQUAD INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$56k
’17
$35k
’18
$8k
’19
$16k
’20
−$871
’21
$50k
’22
$108k
’23
$71k
’24
$101k
’25
10
months of
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

Emma Dutton

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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No longer listed·04231000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $54 → $2k.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 WATAUGA COUNTY EMERGENCY AND 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

WATAUGA COUNTY EMERGENCY AND RESCUE SQUAD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

68% 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 WATAUGA COUNTY EMERGENCY AND RESCUE SQUAD INC.

45%
largest funder
98%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 43% · 2022 98% · 2023 91% — 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

68% of WATAUGA COUNTY EMERGENCY AND RESCUE SQUAD INC'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 $7k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from North Carolina funders.

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NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WATAUGA COUNTY EMERGENCY AND RESCUE SQUAD INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin26% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like WATAUGA COUNTY EMERGENCY AND RESCUE SQUAD INC

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In North Carolina

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds WATAUGA COUNTY EMERGENCY AND RESCUE SQUAD INC?
WATAUGA COUNTY EMERGENCY AND RESCUE SQUAD INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,581 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($10,200). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WATAUGA COUNTY EMERGENCY AND RESCUE SQUAD INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $22,581 in grants to WATAUGA COUNTY EMERGENCY AND RESCUE SQUAD INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WATAUGA COUNTY EMERGENCY AND RESCUE SQUAD INC?
RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WATAUGA COUNTY EMERGENCY AND 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 6 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