Cataula Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Analysis

Cataula Volunteer Fire Department Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Cataula, GA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1999, 27 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, Cataula Volunteer Fire Department Inc reported income of $175k and spending of $193k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $265k to $175k (-34%), an average of -9.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 134% 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, Cataula Volunteer Fire Department Inc sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 54th percentile within GA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Grand Mound Volunteer Fire Dept ($175k), Oak Hill-Durham Volunteer Fire Company Inc ($175k) and Fire Congress Fellowship Inc ($175k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 89% of the total. At year end it held assets of $596k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $596k.

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.