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FRIENDS OF THE PLANDOME FIRE DEPARTMENT INC

FRIENDS OF THE PLANDOME FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,337 to it, the largest being CHIEF EDWARD PEYSER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ($115,775). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$83k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$150k
Net assets
$377k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 73%
01What it does

What Friends of the Plandome Fire Department Inc does

Mission

To raise funds for the plandome fire department and its all-volunteer membership with firefighting equipment, gear, and training, as well as for recruitment and retention benefits, beyond those included in the plandome fire department's budget funded by the village.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To raise funds for the plandome fire department and its all-volunteer membership with firefighting equipment, gear, and training, as well as for recruitment and retention benefits, beyond those included in the plandome fire department's budget funded by the village.

    $57,421 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $57,421.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($51k) Expenses 100 ($3k) Net assets 100 ($48k)2020 Revenue 144 ($73k) Expenses 1189 ($36k) Net assets 142 ($68k)2021 Revenue 56 ($28k) Expenses 1227 ($37k) Net assets 124 ($60k)2022 Revenue 157 ($80k) Expenses 2073 ($63k) Net assets 160 ($77k)2023 Revenue 651 ($332k) Expenses 2255 ($68k) Net assets 710 ($340k)2024 Revenue 183 ($93k) Expenses 2330 ($70k) Net assets 757 ($362k)2025 Revenue 163 ($83k) Expenses 2272 ($69k) Net assets 787 ($377k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (163)Expenses (2272)Net assets (787)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $77k to $340k (+343%).

$48k
$68k
$60k
$77k
$340k
$362k
$377k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

73% of FRIENDS OF THE PLANDOME FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,797 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$48k
’19
$37k
’20
−$9k
’21
$17k
’22
$263k
’23
$23k
’24
$14k
’25
8.4
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

202320242025
Listed555
Joined·+1+0
No longer listed·10
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $53k → $22k.

Funder
'20
'23
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
funders
2
2
1
1
1

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 FRIENDS OF THE PLANDOME FIRE DEPARTMENT 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

FRIENDS OF THE PLANDOME FIRE DEPARTMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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

99% 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 FRIENDS OF THE PLANDOME FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.

77%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 61% · 2023 91% — growing more concentrated.

“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

98% of FRIENDS OF THE PLANDOME FIRE DEPARTMENT INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
PA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k 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

FRIENDS OF THE PLANDOME FIRE DEPARTMENT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin17% · above the median
Months of reserve8.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

96%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PLANDOME FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
FRIENDS OF THE PLANDOME FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,337 to it, the largest being CHIEF EDWARD PEYSER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ($115,775). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE PLANDOME FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $150,337 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE PLANDOME FIRE DEPARTMENT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE PLANDOME FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
CHIEF EDWARD PEYSER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $115,775 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE PLANDOME FIRE DEPARTMENT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), 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