Warwick Fire Department

Analysis

Warwick Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Warwick, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2025. 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, Warwick Fire Department reported income of $256k and spending of $277k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $240k to $256k (+6.4%), an average of +2.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 105% 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, Warwick Fire Department sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile, and in the 56th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Alpine Rescue Team ($255k), Scotch-Irish Fire Department Inc ($256k) and Sir William Johnson Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated ($255k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 58% and program service revenue 23% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $11k (3.8% of expenses). It paid $12k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $101k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $101k.