Califon Fire Company

Analysis

Califon Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Califon, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1993, 33 years ago. 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, Califon Fire Company reported income of $205k and spending of $198k, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $205k to $205k (-0.3%), an average of -0.1% a year. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Califon Fire Company sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile, and in the 61st percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cloverleaf Music Associates Inc ($205k), Junior Sailing Association of Long Island Sound Inc ($205k) and PTA South Carolina Congress ($205k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 49% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $127k, net assets of $1.3m.