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WEST ESSEX FIRST AID SQUAD INC

WEST ESSEX FIRST AID SQUAD INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,122 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($20,021). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$789k
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$47k
Net assets
$1.1M
10/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What West Essex First Aid Squad Inc does

Mission

Emergency first aid & rescue

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Ambulance and first aid services

    $367,821 spent$499 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Ambulance service

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $367,821.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($277k) Expenses 100 ($351k) Net assets 100 ($769k)2018 Revenue 137 ($379k) Expenses 97 ($341k) Net assets 105 ($807k)2019 Revenue 216 ($600k) Expenses 154 ($540k) Net assets 113 ($867k)2020 Revenue 137 ($380k) Expenses 109 ($381k) Net assets 113 ($866k)2021 Revenue 117 ($324k) Expenses 97 ($341k) Net assets 110 ($849k)2022 Revenue 145 ($401k) Expenses 110 ($386k) Net assets 112 ($864k)2023 Revenue 160 ($443k) Expenses 120 ($422k) Net assets 115 ($885k)2024 Revenue 284 ($789k) Expenses 157 ($552k) Net assets 146 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (284)Expenses (157)Net assets (146)

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 $868k to $1.1M (+28%).

$799k
$813k
$868k
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.3M
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 25% · 2018 16% · 2019 61% · 2020 19% · 2021 18% · 2022 6% · 2023 23% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$74k
’17
$38k
’18
$60k
’19
−$1k
’20
−$17k
’21
$15k
’22
$21k
’23
$237k
’24
14
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.

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Listed99999999
Joined·+1+3+1+1+2+4+1
No longer listed·1311241
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $50 → $16k.

3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 WEST ESSEX FIRST AID SQUAD 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

WEST ESSEX FIRST AID SQUAD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

62% 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 WEST ESSEX FIRST AID SQUAD INC.

42%
largest funder
72%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 45% · 2020 23% · 2021 62% · 2022 55% · 2023 91% — 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.

How long its funders stay

45% of WEST ESSEX FIRST AID SQUAD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

56% of WEST ESSEX FIRST AID SQUAD INC'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 $21k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from New Jersey funders.

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WI
NY
PA
NJ
NC

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

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’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding WEST ESSEX FIRST AID SQUAD INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $247k on record — $135k federal, $112k state.

Federal$135k
grants $135kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Homeland Security$135k
State$112k
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Top programs
  • FEDERAL$80k
  • TRUST FUND$32k

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.

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In New Jersey

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 7%Fundraising 4%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

NJ

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Questions and answers

Who funds WEST ESSEX FIRST AID SQUAD INC?
WEST ESSEX FIRST AID SQUAD INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,122 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($20,021). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WEST ESSEX FIRST AID SQUAD INC have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $47,122 in grants to WEST ESSEX FIRST AID SQUAD INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WEST ESSEX FIRST AID SQUAD INC?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,021 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WEST ESSEX FIRST AID SQUAD 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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