Ellendale Fire Co Inc

Analysis

Ellendale Fire Co Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Ellendale, DE. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1981, 45 years ago. 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, Ellendale Fire Co Inc reported income of $1.8m and spending of $1.6m, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.3m to $1.8m (+34%), an average of +7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Ellendale Fire Co Inc sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within DE. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Uptown Peoples Law Center ($1.8m), Ywam Pneuma Springs ($1.8m) and Friends of Beaver Creek Reserve Inc ($1.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 78% and program service revenue 15% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $416k. It paid $90k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $4.4m against liabilities of $197k, net assets of $4.2m. It reported 24 employees.