LA Motte Community Fire Departmentinc

Analysis

LA Motte Community Fire Departmentinc is a registered charity in United States, based in LA Motte, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2011, 15 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 September 2024, LA Motte Community Fire Departmentinc reported income of $188k and spending of $206k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2024, income grew from $110k to $188k (+71%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2021, when income rose by 371%. Over the whole period it spent 54% 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, LA Motte Community Fire Departmentinc sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 52nd percentile, and in the 53rd percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Moulton Fire Department ($188k), Stacy-Lent Fire Relief Association ($188k) and Chaumont Volunteer Fire Department ($188k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 20% and program service revenue 41% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $4,000, net assets of $1.5m.