Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated

Analysis

Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Sandy Hook, CT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover public safety, disaster preparedness and relief, which this site groups under armed forces, emergency and public safety. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated reported income of $285k and spending of $439k, spending 154% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $338k to $285k (-16%), an average of -4.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 9,128 United States charities whose main cause is armed forces, emergency and public safety and that reported income, Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile, and in the 58th percentile within CT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include South Fayette Township Firemens Association Inc ($285k), Black Police Officers Association of Omaha ($285k) and Mombasha Fire Company of Monroe N Y ($285k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 66% and program service revenue 6.5% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $59k. At year end it held assets of $998k against liabilities of $761k, net assets of $237k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.