Sanborn Fire Co Inc

Analysis

Sanborn Fire Co Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Sanborn, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 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 (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, Sanborn Fire Co Inc reported income of $456k and spending of $261k, leaving 43% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $568k to $456k (-20%), an average of -5.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 97% 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, Sanborn Fire Co Inc sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 65th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Miller House Company ($456k), Rocky Ridge Volunteer Fire Company ($456k) and Quakertown Fire Department ($455k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.1% and program service revenue 80% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $652k, net assets of $1.2m.