Hackettstown First Aid & Rescue Squad

Analysis

Hackettstown First Aid & Rescue Squad is a registered charity in United States, based in Hackettstown, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, Hackettstown First Aid & Rescue Squad reported income of $153k and spending of $178k, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income fell from $213k to $153k (-28%), an average of -6.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 129% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Hackettstown First Aid & Rescue Squad sits at the 36th percentile: it is larger than about 36% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile, and in the 55th percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Orangeburg Calhoun Free Medical Clinic ($153k), Theresas Research Foundation ($153k) and Southwestern Ohio Hemophilia Foundation ($153k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 23% and program service revenue 77% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $61k. At year end it held assets of $64k against liabilities of $38k, net assets of $26k. It reported 8 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.