Firefighters to the Rescue Inc

Analysis

Firefighters to the Rescue Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Palm City, FL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, Firefighters to the Rescue Inc reported income of $64k and spending of $38k, leaving 40% of income unspent that year. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $6,031 to $64k (+956%), an average of +60% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 2409%. Over the whole period it spent 57% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Firefighters to the Rescue Inc sits at the 31st percentile: it is larger than about 31% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 25th percentile, and in the 29th percentile within FL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Peter M Looser Scholarship Foundation ($64k), Kiwanis Foundation of Santa Barbara ($64k) and Friends of Westbrook School Foundation Inc ($64k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. At year end it held assets of $263k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $263k.