East Dunkirk Volunteer Fire Company Inc

Analysis

East Dunkirk Volunteer Fire Company Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Dunkirk, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2009, 17 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, East Dunkirk Volunteer Fire Company Inc reported income of $202k and spending of $211k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $256k to $202k (-21%), an average of -5.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 100% 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, East Dunkirk Volunteer Fire Company Inc sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile, and in the 52nd percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Washington Homocide Investigators Association ($202k), Etna Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated ($203k) and Lansing Emergency Medical Services Inc ($202k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $743k against liabilities of $430k, net assets of $313k.

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.