Connecticut · Nonprofit
WATERTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
WATERTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $230k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $302k
What Watertown Fire Department Inc does
Mission
The mission of the watertown fire department is to protect the lives and property of the citizens of the town of watertown by providing a high quality emergency fire, rescue and first responder medical service. The department will provide an excellent fire prevention program, including public education, and will maintain a firefighting force capable of handling all types of emergencies. These emergencies may include, but are not limited to, firefighting of all types, hazardous response, first responder emergency medical services, and rescues. Whenever possible, the members of the department shall participate in department approved work details, ems and fire standbys, and other functions as organized by the department, the town or private organizations. The department will accomplish this mission while maintaining a high regard for safety and health of our personnel. The department will maintain a high standard of training and education, maintain the fire department stations, apparatus
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Fire and emergency services along with providing the residents of watertown connecticut with fire prevention education.
$145,981 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $145,981.
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 2024 to 2025, from $211k to $302k (+43%).
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 64% · 2018 55% · 2019 66% · 2020 72% · 2021 73% · 2022 73% · 2023 87% · 2024 76% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of WATERTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WATERTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT 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.
Where its funders are
100% of WATERTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
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
WATERTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding WATERTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $130k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$130k
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 WATERTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT 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 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
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WATERTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT 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 WATERTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- WATERTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WATERTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to WATERTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT INC.
- Who is the largest funder of WATERTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT INC?
- Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WATERTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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