Bridgeville Volunteer Fire Company

Analysis

Bridgeville Volunteer Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Bridgeville, DE. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2010, 16 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, Bridgeville Volunteer Fire Company reported income of $1.9m and spending of $1.9m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $1.9m (+53%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 100%. Over the whole period it spent 89% 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, Bridgeville Volunteer Fire Company sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within DE. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Auburn Volunteer Fire Department ($1.8m), Montgomery County Association of Volunteer Fire Departments ($1.9m) and Quinebaug Valley Emergency Comm Inc ($1.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 74% and program service revenue 23% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $392k. At year end it held assets of $6.8m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $6.8m. It reported 19 employees.