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PENNINGTON FIRE COMPANY INC

PENNINGTON FIRE COMPANY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,546 to it, the largest being STRAUBE FOUNDATION INC ($11,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$289k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$22k
Net assets
$2.2M
7/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Pennington Fire Company Inc does

Mission

Providing fire protection and emergency services to pennington, hopewell and the surrounding areas.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide firefighting services to local communities such as fire protection, prevention, safety and education.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

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 ($261k) Expenses 100 ($178k) Net assets 100 ($1.8M)2018 Revenue 96 ($251k) Expenses 94 ($167k) Net assets 104 ($1.9M)2019 Revenue 71 ($186k) Expenses 95 ($169k) Net assets 104 ($1.9M)2020 Revenue 94 ($245k) Expenses 81 ($145k) Net assets 110 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 131 ($342k) Expenses 96 ($172k) Net assets 120 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 93 ($242k) Expenses 119 ($212k) Net assets 122 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 111 ($289k) Expenses 136 ($242k) Net assets 122 ($2.2M)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (111)Expenses (136)Net assets (122)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 $2.6M to $2.8M (+8%).

$2.5M
$2.5M
$2.4M
$2.5M
$2.6M
$2.6M
$2.8M
2017201820192020202120222023
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

64% of PENNINGTON FIRE COMPANY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$83k
’17
$84k
’18
$17k
’19
$100k
’20
$170k
’21
$30k
’22
$47k
’23
35
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.

Board chair

Brian Hofacker

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1010101010101010
Joined·+2+0+1+5+0+4+0
No longer listed·2015040
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $2k → $2k.

1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 PENNINGTON 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

PENNINGTON FIRE COMPANY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

51%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 87% · 2019 80% · 2020 59% · 2021 89% · 2022 77% · 2023 65% — 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.

How long its funders stay

43% of PENNINGTON FIRE COMPANY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

92% of PENNINGTON FIRE COMPANY INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

NY
NJ
NC

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

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’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $293 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

PENNINGTON FIRE COMPANY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,854 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve34.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,854 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023

Government funding PENNINGTON FIRE COMPANY INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $66k on record.

State$66k
21
22
Top programs
  • FEDERAL$66k

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 PENNINGTON FIRE COMPANY INC

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In New Jersey

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

51%

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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Questions and answers

Who funds PENNINGTON FIRE COMPANY INC?
PENNINGTON FIRE COMPANY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,546 to it, the largest being STRAUBE FOUNDATION INC ($11,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PENNINGTON FIRE COMPANY INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $21,546 in grants to PENNINGTON FIRE COMPANY INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PENNINGTON FIRE COMPANY INC?
STRAUBE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PENNINGTON FIRE COMPANY 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 8 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