New Jersey · Nonprofit
HIGH BRIDGE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
HIGH BRIDGE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,000 to it, the largest being COLUMBIA BANK FOUNDATION ($7,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $387k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $676k
What High Bridge Fire Department Inc does
Mission
Fire protection
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Provide fire protection for borough of high bridge and surrounding municipalities and education to the public.
$204,605 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $204,605.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $448k to $676k (+51%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 62% · 2018 64% · 2019 64% · 2020 78% · 2021 64% · 2022 57% · 2023 59% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of HIGH BRIDGE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $1k.
From the IRS filings of HIGH BRIDGE 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.
Where its funders are
100% of HIGH BRIDGE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
HIGH BRIDGE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding HIGH BRIDGE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $136k on record — $136k federal, $50 state.
- Department of Homeland Security$136k
- GRANT IN AID$50
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HIGH BRIDGE FIRE DEPARTMENT 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HIGH BRIDGE FIRE DEPARTMENT 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 HIGH BRIDGE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- HIGH BRIDGE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,000 to it, the largest being COLUMBIA BANK FOUNDATION ($7,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIGH BRIDGE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,000 in grants to HIGH BRIDGE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGH BRIDGE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- COLUMBIA BANK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGH BRIDGE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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