Five Points Volunteer Rural Fire and Rescue Inc

Analysis

Five Points Volunteer Rural Fire and Rescue Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Lanett, AL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover public and societal benefit, which this site groups under other charitable purposes. 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, Five Points Volunteer Rural Fire and Rescue Inc reported income of $63k and spending of $96k, spending 152% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $54k to $63k (+17%), an average of +3.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 606%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Five Points Volunteer Rural Fire and Rescue Inc sits at the 24th percentile: it is larger than about 24% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 25th percentile, and in the 23rd percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include International Society for the History of Rhetoric ($63k), Boy Scouts of America ($63k) and Robert Miller Fund for Music Inc ($63k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. It paid $14k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $267k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $267k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.