Solvay Fire Department Inc

Analysis

Solvay Fire Department Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Solvay, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 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, Solvay Fire Department Inc reported income of $1.1m and spending of $1.1m, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $946k to $1.1m (+20%), an average of +4.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 91% 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, Solvay Fire Department Inc sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 77th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bunn Rural Fire Association Inc ($1.1m), Richland Township Volunteer Firemans Association ($1.1m) and Alpha Fire Company No 1 ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.4% and program service revenue 91% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $50k. At year end it held assets of $6.1m against liabilities of $731k, net assets of $5.4m. It reported 5 employees.