New Jersey · Nonprofit
Rutherford Fire Department Fund Drive Inc
Rutherford Fire Department Fund Drive Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $359 to it, the largest being BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB FOUNDATION INC ($200). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $81k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $359
- Net assets
- $28k
What Rutherford Fire Department Fund Drive Inc does
Mission
To provide voluntary fire protection and suppression to the citizens and visitors of the borough of rutherford, bergen county, new jersey, provide mutual assistance to the neighboring towns, promote fire prevention programs, provide support to other not for profit organizations, presentation of programs not financially supported though public funding, social and fraternal events and activities not financially supported through public funding, and supplemental funding for members of the fire department, fire company, or other associated fire service individual who becomes indigent or otherwise incapable of providing food or shelter for themselves and/or their family members.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Monetary donations made to other organizations foster better relationships with community based organizations within the borough, which provide a safer and better living for all members of the community. Donations made allow the department to increase its exposure to those in the community, allowing the department opportunity to provide citizens with updated and important information regarding fire safety. Lastly, the donations made to other fire companies provide better relations with mutual assistance, benefitting the community as a whole.
$33,032 spentof which $28,455 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $33,032.
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 2021 to 2022, from $29k to $11k (−61%).
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.
100% of Rutherford Fire Department Fund Drive Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50 → $41.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 Rutherford Fire Department Fund Drive 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
Rutherford Fire Department Fund Drive Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 64% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
67% of Rutherford Fire Department Fund Drive 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. $59 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.
Against its field
Rutherford Fire Department Fund Drive Inc has grown faster than half of the 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Rutherford Fire Department Fund Drive 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.
Public support
100%
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 Rutherford Fire Department Fund Drive 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 Rutherford Fire Department Fund Drive Inc?
- Rutherford Fire Department Fund Drive Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $359 to it, the largest being BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB FOUNDATION INC ($200). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Rutherford Fire Department Fund Drive Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $359 in grants to Rutherford Fire Department Fund Drive Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rutherford Fire Department Fund Drive Inc?
- BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rutherford Fire Department Fund Drive 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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