Garden City Fire Department Inc

Analysis

Garden City Fire Department Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Garden City, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 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 (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending April 2024, Garden City Fire Department Inc reported income of $163k and spending of $160k, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2020 to April 2024, income fell from $221k to $163k (-26%), an average of -7.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2021, when income dropped by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 65% 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, Garden City Fire Department Inc sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile, and in the 47th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lawrenceville Fire Department ($163k), Volunteer Firemen of Magnolia Inc ($163k) and Peoples Firehouse Inc ($163k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending April 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 92% of the total. At year end it held assets of $512k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $512k.