Bexar Bulverde Volunteer Fire Department

Analysis

Bexar Bulverde Volunteer Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in San Antonio, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2025. Its declared purposes cover arts, culture and humanities, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation (type i) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Bexar Bulverde Volunteer Fire Department reported income of $10.9m and spending of $10.0m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $7.2m to $10.9m (+51%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Bexar Bulverde Volunteer Fire Department sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Trout Museum of Art Inc ($10.9m), Democracy Now Productions Inc ($10.9m) and Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics ($10.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.1% and program service revenue 98% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $167k (1.7% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $4.8m. At year end it held assets of $22.4m against liabilities of $6.3m, net assets of $16.0m. It reported 83 employees.