Woodbury Heights Improvement Protective and Fire Association

Analysis

Woodbury Heights Improvement Protective and Fire Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Woodbury HTS, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2014, 12 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2021, Woodbury Heights Improvement Protective and Fire Association reported income of $51k and spending of $101k, spending 198% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2021, income fell from $69k to $51k (-26%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 195% 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, Woodbury Heights Improvement Protective and Fire Association sits at the 18th percentile: it is larger than about 18% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 20th percentile, and in the 26th percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Southwest Oneida County Joint Swoc ($51k), Friends of the Richmond Mounted Squad ($51k) and Ely Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($51k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2021, revenue came from contributions and grants 2.8% and program service revenue 70% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.3m.

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.