New York · Nonprofit
WANTAGH FIRE DEPARTMENT
WANTAGH FIRE DEPARTMENT (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being RFUTURES CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONLTD ($2,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $184k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $127k
What Wantagh Fire Department does
Mission
The Wantagh Fire Department is a volunteer fire organization whose purpose is to provide volunteer fire protection, fire education and awareness. As well, members of the organization provide emergency medical assistance, hazardous material response and removal services, and life preservation services to the community. The volunteer fire fighters, hazardous material specialists and emergency medical specialists of the department primarily serve the wantagh fire district (a governmental entity). The department's members also provide "mutual aid and "standby" services to surrounding districts when required to do so.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Gifts, grants and contributions to other npos:the Wantagh Fire Department conducts an annual direct mail and "door-to-door" fundraising campaign. All of the members of the volunteer fire companies of the department participate by volunterring their time and talents to the fundraising effort. The fire department then grants the net proceeds generated from the annual campaign to the department's fire companies in order to assist the fire companies in providing volunteer fire protection, fire education and awareness, emergency medical assistance, hazardous material response and removal services, and life preservation services to the local community. Moneys distributed to the department's fire companies also assists the fire companies in providing mutual aid to surrounding districts.to continue, the Wantagh Fire Department grants moneys to other outside civic organizations that promote social welfare, education and the betterment of the surrounding communities.
$203,947 spentof which $110,724 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $203,947.
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 $200k to $153k (−24%).
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.
99% of WANTAGH FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $25 → $350.
From the IRS filings of WANTAGH FIRE DEPARTMENT’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
WANTAGH FIRE DEPARTMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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: 2021 100% · 2022 80% · 2023 86% — 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
98% of WANTAGH FIRE DEPARTMENT's grant income comes from New York 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
WANTAGH FIRE DEPARTMENT's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,208 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WANTAGH FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- WANTAGH FIRE DEPARTMENT (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being RFUTURES CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONLTD ($2,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WANTAGH FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $2,500 in grants to WANTAGH FIRE DEPARTMENT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WANTAGH FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- RFUTURES CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONLTD is the largest funder on record, with $2,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WANTAGH FIRE DEPARTMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing