Middlebush Volunteer Fire Department

Analysis

Middlebush Volunteer Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Somerset, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1997, 29 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, Middlebush Volunteer Fire Department reported income of $162k and spending of $168k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $232k to $162k (-30%), an average of -8.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 94% 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, Middlebush Volunteer Fire Department 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 49th percentile, and in the 56th percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bakertown Volunteer Fire and 1st Responder ($162k), Circleville Volunteer Fire Dept ($162k) and Mt Calvary Fire Department Auxiliary Inc ($161k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $603k against liabilities of $4,814, net assets of $598k.