Zell Volunteer Fire Department

Analysis

Zell Volunteer Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Ste Genevieve, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1985, 41 years ago. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Zell Volunteer Fire Department reported income of $115k and spending of $93k, spending 81% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $185k to $115k (-38%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 58%. Over the whole period it spent 81% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Zell Volunteer Fire Department sits at the 40th percentile: it is larger than about 40% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 41st percentile, and in the 38th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Patrick County Education Foundation ($115k), Tarheel Minuteman Foundation ($115k) and PTA North Carolina Congress ($115k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 44% and program service revenue 3.3% of the total. At year end it held assets of $599k against liabilities of $132k, net assets of $468k.