Winterport Fire and Rescue Association

Analysis

Winterport Fire and Rescue Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Winterport, ME. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Winterport Fire and Rescue Association reported income of $457k and spending of $521k, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $203k to $457k (+125%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 188%. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Winterport Fire and Rescue Association sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 65th percentile within ME. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cabarrus Womens Center Inc ($457k), The Race Inc ($457k) and Motion Project Foundation Inc ($457k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.2% and program service revenue 98% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $46k (8.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $297k. At year end it held assets of $190k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $190k. It reported 15 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.