Fairfield Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation

Analysis

Fairfield Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Fairfield, CT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2014, 12 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, Fairfield Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation reported income of $55k and spending of $53k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $50k to $55k (+10%), an average of +2.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 639%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Fairfield Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation sits at the 27th percentile: it is larger than about 27% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 21st percentile, and in the 20th percentile within CT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Newtown Lions Foundation Inc ($55k), Dublin Foundation ($55k) and Marshall Hospital Foundation ($55k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 87% of the total. At year end it held assets of $67k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $67k.