Brooklyn Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Analysis

Brooklyn Volunteer Fire Department Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Brooklyn, IN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 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, Brooklyn Volunteer Fire Department Inc reported income of $218k and spending of $191k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $167k to $218k (+31%), an average of +7.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 50%. Over the whole period it spent 78% 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, Brooklyn Volunteer Fire Department Inc sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile, and in the 55th percentile within IN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include North Hero Volunteer Fire Dept Inc ($218k), Harwinton Volunteer Fire Department Incorporation ($218k) and Rocky Mountain Rescue Group Inc ($218k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $267k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $267k.