Cheshire Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Analysis

Cheshire Volunteer Fire Department Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Canandaigua, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1996, 30 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 February 2023, Cheshire Volunteer Fire Department Inc reported income of $609k and spending of $419k, leaving 31% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from February 2020 to February 2023, income fell from $825k to $609k (-26%), an average of -9.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to February 2021, when income dropped by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 75% 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, Cheshire Volunteer Fire Department Inc sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 69th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Warsaw Fire Department ($609k), Barboursville Vol Fire Dept ($610k) and Alberta Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($607k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending February 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% and program service revenue 0.2% of the total. At year end it held assets of $4.6m against liabilities of $1.0m, net assets of $3.6m.