Bayport Fire Department

Analysis

Bayport Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Bayport, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2004, 22 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Bayport Fire Department reported income of $97k and spending of $104k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $73k to $97k (+33%), an average of +7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 83% 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, Bayport Fire Department sits at the 37th percentile: it is larger than about 36% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 36th percentile, and in the 36th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of the Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Center Inc ($97k), Empire Hose Company No 1 of Piermont New York Inc ($97k) and Melbourne Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($97k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 69% of the total. At year end it held assets of $562k against liabilities of $219k, net assets of $343k.