New Jersey First Aid Council

Analysis

New Jersey First Aid Council is a registered charity in United States, based in Maplewood, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 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 2021, New Jersey First Aid Council reported income of $213k and spending of $180k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2021, income fell from $305k to $213k (-30%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 80% 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, New Jersey First Aid Council sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile, and in the 62nd percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Option Independent Fire Co of ($212k), Youth Rebuilding New Orleans ($213k) and Columbia Basin Dive Rescue ($212k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2021, revenue came from contributions and grants 39% and program service revenue 39% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $66k, net assets of $1.0m.