Fish River Marlow Community Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Analysis

Fish River Marlow Community Volunteer Fire Department Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Summerdale, AL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2002, 24 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, Fish River Marlow Community Volunteer Fire Department Inc reported income of $370k and spending of $371k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $203k to $370k (+82%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 51%. Over the whole period it spent 112% 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, Fish River Marlow Community Volunteer Fire Department Inc sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 67th percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bowmansville Volunteer Fire Company ($370k), The Volunteer Fire Company No 1 of Coaldale Pennsylvania ($370k) and North Transylvania Fire Rescue Inc ($369k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $744k, net assets of $943k.