Connecticut · Nonprofit
The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated
The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated (Connecticut) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,937 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($9,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $155k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $416k
What The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated does
Mission
The Noroton Heights Fire Department, Incorporated provides fire and other emergency response services to its district within the Town of Darien, Connecticut, as well as providing mutual aid coverage to the other fire departments in town and to surrounding communities, both upon request and upon established agreements. The department is totally staffed by volunteers, 24 hours per day. The response service includes extinguishment of fire of any sort (structural, vehicle, open land, etc.), emergency extraction of victims and structure stabilization, of vehicle accidents and other entrapments, search and rescue of lost persons, initial hazard material response and other emergency situation responses of a nature requiring immediate action due to person or property being at risk. The department serves approximately 40% of the town of Darien, responding to approximately 300 alarms. Property and building which house the department is owned by the department. The department does not have any pa
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
All volunteer fire and emergency department responding to more than 300 incidents.
$126,965 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $126,965.
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 2019 to 2020, from $362k to $399k (+10%).
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 8% · 2018 12% · 2019 14% · 2020 7% · 2022 10% · 2023 7% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Chris Schneider
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $6k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated’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
The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
57% 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 The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 78% · 2019 100% · 2020 79% · 2021 42% · 2022 69% · 2023 86% — 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
30% of The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
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
57% of The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $15k that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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
The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19k on record.
- Firefighting$19k
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 The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated: 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 The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated?
- The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated (Connecticut) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,937 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($9,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $35,937 in grants to The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $9,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 14 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