Fairfax Volunteer Fire Department

Analysis

Fairfax Volunteer Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Fairfax, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Fairfax Volunteer Fire Department reported income of $111k and spending of $298k, spending 268% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $275k to $111k (-60%), an average of -20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 209% 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, Fairfax Volunteer Fire Department sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile, and in the 39th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Star Cross Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($111k), Aeneas McDonald Police Benvolent Assoc ($111k) and Keystone Volunteer Fire Company ($111k).

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 $1.8m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.8m.

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.