Maryland · Nonprofit
WHEATON VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD
WHEATON VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD (Maryland) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $450,053 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($358,762). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $450k
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What Wheaton Volunteer Rescue Squad does
Mission
The mission of the Wheaton Volunteer Rescue Squad (wvrs) is to protect the publics health and safety in partnership with the montgomery county fire and rescue services. The wvrs is a volunteer, not-for-profit corporation that provides emergency services to any person in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization provided ems and rescue services at no charge to the recipients of these services. Trained personnel responded to 10,940 emergency calls for these services having an estimated value of $7,357,000. The organization also participates with and maintains its presence in the local residential and business communities served in order to complement and maximize the value of ems and rescue services provided. For example, in an effort to interact directly with the community, the organization sponsors an annual open house. Other community outreach activities include the hosting of children's birthday parties during the year.
$846,234 spent$47,204 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $846,234.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $7.6M to $8.0M (+6%).
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 70% · 2019 49% · 2020 65% · 2021 54% · 2022 52% · 2023 54% · 2024 72% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of WHEATON VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (69% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $31k → $55k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 WHEATON VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD’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
WHEATON VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 WHEATON VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 94% · 2019 97% · 2020 76% · 2021 98% · 2022 51% · 2023 97% — 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.
How long its funders stay
44% of WHEATON VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
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
97% of WHEATON VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD'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 $12k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $438k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
WHEATON VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WHEATON VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
44% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 WHEATON VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds WHEATON VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD?
- WHEATON VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD (Maryland) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $450,053 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($358,762). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WHEATON VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $450,053 in grants to WHEATON VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHEATON VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $358,762 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHEATON VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD 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.
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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 13 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