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HIGHLAND CHEMICAL ENGINE COMPANY

HIGHLAND CHEMICAL ENGINE COMPANY (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,250 to it, the largest being THE SYKORA FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$173k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$4k
Net assets
$2.3M
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Highland Chemical Engine Company does

Mission

Responding to fires in an efficient and effective manner

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Since 1913 our fire company has responded to over 200 calls per year for fire and emergency.

    $225,947 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $225,947.

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 ($133k) Expenses 100 ($82k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 59 ($78k) Expenses 50 ($41k) Net assets 103 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 93 ($124k) Expenses 29 ($24k) Net assets 119 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 42 ($56k) Expenses 81 ($66k) Net assets 132 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 110 ($147k) Expenses 96 ($79k) Net assets 141 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 114 ($152k) Expenses 100 ($82k) Net assets 147 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 100 ($133k) Expenses 126 ($103k) Net assets 145 ($1.9M)2024 Revenue 130 ($173k) Expenses 166 ($136k) Net assets 179 ($2.3M)
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Revenue (130)Expenses (166)Net assets (179)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 2019 to 2020, from $1.5M to $2.0M (+34%).

$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.5M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$2.2M
$2.2M
$2.6M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

17% of HIGHLAND CHEMICAL ENGINE COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,485 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$52k
’17
$38k
’18
$101k
’19
−$10k
’20
$68k
’21
$70k
’22
$29k
’23
$38k
’24
14
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.

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Listed55555559
Joined·+0+1+0+2+1+0+4
No longer listed·0102100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $500 → $1k.

From the IRS filings of HIGHLAND CHEMICAL ENGINE COMPANY’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

HIGHLAND CHEMICAL ENGINE COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% 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

59%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 91% — diversifying over time.

“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

59% of HIGHLAND CHEMICAL ENGINE COMPANY's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

NY
MA
NJ

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

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’21
’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HIGHLAND CHEMICAL ENGINE COMPANY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · above the median
Months of reserve14.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

62
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HIGHLAND CHEMICAL ENGINE COMPANY: 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 HIGHLAND CHEMICAL ENGINE COMPANY?
HIGHLAND CHEMICAL ENGINE COMPANY (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,250 to it, the largest being THE SYKORA FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HIGHLAND CHEMICAL ENGINE COMPANY have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $4,250 in grants to HIGHLAND CHEMICAL ENGINE COMPANY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HIGHLAND CHEMICAL ENGINE COMPANY?
THE SYKORA FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HIGHLAND CHEMICAL ENGINE COMPANY 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 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