Brunswick Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated

Analysis

Brunswick Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Brunswick, MD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2025. 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, Brunswick Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated reported income of $477k and spending of $324k, leaving 32% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $425k to $477k (+12%), an average of +2.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 168%. Over the whole period it spent 94% 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, Brunswick Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within MD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Apalachin Fire Department Inc ($477k), Penryn Fire Company ($477k) and Mexico Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($476k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 60% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.6m against liabilities of $959k, net assets of $2.6m.