Westport Community Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Analysis

Westport Community Volunteer Fire Department Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Westport, IN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2007, 19 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, Westport Community Volunteer Fire Department Inc reported income of $178k and spending of $171k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $164k to $178k (+8.9%), an average of +2.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 88% 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, Westport Community Volunteer Fire Department Inc sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 50th percentile within IN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Jane Lew Volunteer Fire Department ($178k), Pleasant Run Fire Department Inc ($178k) and Chimney Rock Vol Fire Dept ($178k).

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 $765k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $765k.