Waveland Community Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated

Analysis

Waveland Community Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Waveland, IN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1995, 31 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, Waveland Community Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated reported income of $89k and spending of $86k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income fell from $153k to $89k (-42%), an average of -42% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 61% 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, Waveland Community Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated sits at the 34th percentile: it is larger than about 34% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 34th percentile, and in the 31st percentile within IN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bloomsburg Volunteers Firefighters Relief Associations of Bloomsburg ($89k), Minoa Fire Department Inc ($89k) and Shrewsbury Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($89k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 38% and program service revenue 44% of the total. At year end it held assets of $466k against liabilities of $13k, net assets of $453k.