Hose Company No 4

Analysis

Hose Company No 4 is a registered charity in United States, based in Rockingham, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1972, 54 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Hose Company No 4 reported income of $267k and spending of $511k, spending 191% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $231k to $267k (+15%), an average of +3.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 116% 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, Hose Company No 4 sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile, and in the 59th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Proskauer Rose Charitable Foundation ($267k), Town of Moriah Ambulance Squad ($267k) and The Mariaville Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($267k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 77% and program service revenue 0.0% of the total. At year end it held assets of $732k against liabilities of $296k, net assets of $436k.