Brown County Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated

Analysis

Brown County Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Nashville, IN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2022, 4 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, Brown County Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated reported income of $548k and spending of $199k, leaving 64% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $104k to $548k (+426%), an average of +51% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 427%. Over the whole period it spent 63% 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, Brown County Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within IN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Godwin-Falcon Fire Dept Inc ($548k), Columbia Hose Co No 1 Volunteer Fire Dept ($549k) and Clyde Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($548k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 84% and program service revenue 14% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.2m.