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WAYNE COUNTY FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION (WCFRA)

WAYNE COUNTY FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION (WCFRA) (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,474,286 to it, the largest being Wayne County Community Foundation ($3,292,030). 3 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.

$714k
Revenue FY2024
9
Funders on record
$3.5M
Grants received
$3.8M
Net assets
3/9 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

WAYNE COUNTY FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION (WCFRA) runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,061 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin31% · above the median
Months of reserve8.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,061 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($783k) Expenses 100 ($306k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 72 ($562k) Expenses 104 ($317k) Net assets 119 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 190 ($1.5M) Expenses 109 ($333k) Net assets 209 ($2.7M)2020 Revenue 118 ($920k) Expenses 96 ($293k) Net assets 258 ($3.3M)2021 Revenue 83 ($653k) Expenses 144 ($440k) Net assets 275 ($3.5M)2022 Revenue 84 ($656k) Expenses 159 ($487k) Net assets 287 ($3.7M)2023 Revenue 55 ($434k) Expenses 170 ($521k) Net assets 281 ($3.6M)2024 Revenue 91 ($714k) Expenses 161 ($493k) Net assets 298 ($3.8M)
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Revenue (91)Expenses (161)Net assets (298)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 66% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2022 3% · 2023 7% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

61% of WAYNE COUNTY FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION (WCFRA)’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,472 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$477k
17
$246k
18
$1.2M
19
$627k
20
$213k
21
$169k
22
$87k
23
$221k
24
8.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $64k → $85k.

5 of 9 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 WAYNE COUNTY FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION (WCFRA)’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

WAYNE COUNTY FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION (WCFRA) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 WAYNE COUNTY FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION (WCFRA).

95%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 88% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 97%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.

How long its funders stay

40% of WAYNE COUNTY FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION (WCFRA)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

98% of WAYNE COUNTY FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION (WCFRA)'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 $59k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from Ohio funders.

OH
VA
TX

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

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21
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23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

03Its place in the field

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 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 WAYNE COUNTY FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION (WCFRA)

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 Ohio

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WAYNE COUNTY FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION (WCFRA): 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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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 WAYNE COUNTY FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION (WCFRA)?
WAYNE COUNTY FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION (WCFRA) (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,474,286 to it, the largest being Wayne County Community Foundation ($3,292,030). 3 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 WAYNE COUNTY FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION (WCFRA) have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $3,474,286 in grants to WAYNE COUNTY FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION (WCFRA), 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WAYNE COUNTY FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION (WCFRA)?
Wayne County Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,292,030 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WAYNE COUNTY FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION (WCFRA) find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 9funders 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