Manchester Volunteer Rescue Squad

Analysis

Manchester Volunteer Rescue Squad is a registered charity in United States, based in Chesterfield, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1957, 69 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 (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, Manchester Volunteer Rescue Squad reported income of $463k and spending of $495k, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $533k to $463k (-13%), an average of -3.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Manchester Volunteer Rescue Squad 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 69th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Partners of Gundersen Lutheran Inc ($463k), Extraordinary Lives Foundation ($464k) and Laurens Wish Addiction Triage Center Inc ($463k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 49% and program service revenue 29% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $133k, net assets of $1.3m.

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.