Jersey City Fire Foundation

Analysis

Jersey City Fire Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Jersey City, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, Jersey City Fire Foundation reported income of $68k and spending of $58k, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $9,569 to $68k (+606%), an average of +63% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 420%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Jersey City Fire Foundation sits at the 33rd percentile: it is larger than about 33% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 27th percentile, and in the 34th percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Carlin C Coppin Parent Teacher Club ($68k), Columbia Jewish Foundation Inc ($68k) and Falls Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc ($67k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $66k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $66k.