Hurlock Volunteer Fire Company

Analysis

Hurlock Volunteer Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Hurlock, MD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2025. 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, Hurlock Volunteer Fire Company reported income of $289k and spending of $210k, leaving 27% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $238k to $289k (+21%), an average of +4.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 40%. Over the whole period it spent 87% 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, Hurlock Volunteer Fire Company sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile, and in the 61st percentile within MD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Gerton Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Inc ($289k), McGaheysville Volunteer Fire Company Inc ($289k) and Greene County Association of Volunteer Fire Departments ($288k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 92% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.0m against liabilities of $667k, net assets of $1.4m.