Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ESSEX FIRE COMPANY INC
ESSEX FIRE COMPANY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $19k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $276k
What Essex Fire Company Inc does
Mission
The essex fire company, inc. (efc) is a private organization consisting of members of the town of essex, ma fire department (efd). The efd is a call/volunteer organization and provides fire, rescue and emergency medical services within the town and on a mutual aid basis as required. The efc is primarily a relief and community service organization which maintains three funds, each with its own purpose. The reserve fund is used to assist a firefighter/emt who is injured on the job, above and beyond what town insurance provides. The scholarship fund provides an annual 1,000 to two essex residents graduating from high school and attending post-secondary education. The general fund is used to provide firefighter gear and equipment efc members request which is unable to be acquired through the town budget. The general fund also covers the day to day costs of operating of the efc.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Essex fire department training and equipment
$20,313 spent81% of program spendingScholarship
$2,000 spent8% of program spendingFirefighter assistance
$1,177 spent5% of program spendingMisc. Charitable gifts
$1,526 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $25,016.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $167k to $188k (+12%).
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.
35% of ESSEX FIRE COMPANY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $6k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 ESSEX FIRE COMPANY INC’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
ESSEX FIRE COMPANY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ESSEX FIRE COMPANY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2022 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
100% of ESSEX FIRE COMPANY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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.
Against its field
ESSEX FIRE COMPANY INC has grown faster than half of the 3,153 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,153 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like ESSEX FIRE COMPANY INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ESSEX FIRE COMPANY INC: 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 ESSEX FIRE COMPANY INC?
- ESSEX FIRE COMPANY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ESSEX FIRE COMPANY INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $16,000 in grants to ESSEX FIRE COMPANY INC.
- Who is the largest funder of ESSEX FIRE COMPANY INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ESSEX FIRE COMPANY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 2 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