Frontier Volunteer Fire Co

Analysis

Frontier Volunteer Fire Co is a registered charity in United States, based in Niagara Falls, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2009, 17 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, Frontier Volunteer Fire Co reported income of $414k and spending of $243k, leaving 41% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $353k to $414k (+17%), an average of +4.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 74% 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, Frontier Volunteer Fire Co sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 63rd percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Resuscitation Academy Foundation ($414k), Wood County Firefighters Association Inc ($414k) and Sky Valley-Scaly Mountain Volunteer and Rescue Department Incorporated ($413k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 71% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $3,645. At year end it held assets of $3.5m against liabilities of $185k, net assets of $3.3m.