North Carolina · Nonprofit
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.
Against its field
WATAUGA COUNTY EMERGENCY AND RESCUE SQUAD INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,881 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,881 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- St Peters Hospital Foundation Incshared funders
- Pee Dee Electric Membership Corpportfolio 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: 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 (83% 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
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
- St Peters Hospital Foundation Incshared fundersNC · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- Pee Dee Electric Membership Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mid-South Resource Conservation and Development Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fm Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nextdoor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- US Wind Force Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leary Firefighters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Community Foundation for Crawford Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deerfield Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gary Sinise 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.
Organizations like WATAUGA COUNTY EMERGENCY AND RESCUE SQUAD INC
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WATAUGA COUNTY EMERGENCY AND 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.
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 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.
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 6funders 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