Mt Jackson Rescue and Fire Department Inc

Analysis

Mt Jackson Rescue and Fire Department Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Mount Jackson, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2001, 25 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, Mt Jackson Rescue and Fire Department Inc reported income of $745k and spending of $844k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $646k to $745k (+15%), an average of +3.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 71%. Over the whole period it spent 99% 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, Mt Jackson Rescue and Fire Department Inc sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 76th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Easton Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($744k), Willards Volunteer Fire Co Inc ($746k) and Churchville Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated ($744k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $392k. At year end it held assets of $3.3m against liabilities of $1.2m, net assets of $2.1m.

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.