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CARLSTADT FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION

CARLSTADT FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,089 to it, the largest being ROBERT E & MARIE ORR SMITH FOUNDATION CO THE ($26,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$70k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$26k
Net assets
$184k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Carlstadt Firefighters Foundation does

Mission

Fire protection for borough of carlstadt

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Donations/gifts

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($111k) Expenses 100 ($61k) Net assets 100 ($148k)2018 Revenue 79 ($87k) Expenses 135 ($82k) Net assets 103 ($152k)2019 Revenue 73 ($80k) Expenses 154 ($93k) Net assets 94 ($139k)2020 Revenue 91 ($101k) Expenses 171 ($104k) Net assets 92 ($136k)2021 Revenue 83 ($92k) Expenses 140 ($85k) Net assets 97 ($143k)2022 Revenue 88 ($97k) Expenses 120 ($73k) Net assets 113 ($167k)2023 Revenue 79 ($87k) Expenses 163 ($99k) Net assets 105 ($155k)2024 Revenue 95 ($105k) Expenses 142 ($86k) Net assets 118 ($174k)2025 Revenue 85 ($94k) Expenses 154 ($94k) Net assets 118 ($174k)2026 Revenue 63 ($70k) Expenses 100 ($61k) Net assets 125 ($184k)
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Revenue (63)Expenses (100)Net assets (125)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $143k to $167k (+17%).

$148k
$152k
$139k
$136k
$143k
$167k
$155k
$174k
$174k
$184k
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Total assets

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of CARLSTADT FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

$50k
’17
$5k
’18
−$13k
’19
−$3k
’20
$7k
’21
$24k
’22
−$12k
’23
$19k
’24
$280
’25
$10k
’26
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $23 → $15k.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CARLSTADT FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CARLSTADT FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

CARLSTADT FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 2 states in all.

IL
PA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $64 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CARLSTADT FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,015 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,015 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2026

Organizations like CARLSTADT FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARLSTADT FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CARLSTADT FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION?
CARLSTADT FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,089 to it, the largest being ROBERT E & MARIE ORR SMITH FOUNDATION CO THE ($26,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CARLSTADT FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $26,089 in grants to CARLSTADT FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CARLSTADT FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION?
ROBERT E & MARIE ORR SMITH FOUNDATION CO THE is the largest funder on record, with $26,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CARLSTADT FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing