Melville Volunteer Fire Dept Inc

Analysis

Melville Volunteer Fire Dept Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Melville, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover public safety, disaster preparedness and relief, which this site groups under armed forces, emergency and public safety. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Melville Volunteer Fire Dept Inc reported income of $279k and spending of $314k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $285k to $279k (-2.1%), an average of -0.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 15%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 9,128 United States charities whose main cause is armed forces, emergency and public safety and that reported income, Melville Volunteer Fire Dept Inc sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile, and in the 57th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Chesterfield Fire Co Inc ($279k), Castalia Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($280k) and Webster Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($279k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% of the total. At year end it held assets of $908k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $908k.