Bowie Volunteer Fire Dept and Rescue Squad Inc

Analysis

Bowie Volunteer Fire Dept and Rescue Squad Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Bowie, MD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 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 June 2023, Bowie Volunteer Fire Dept and Rescue Squad Inc reported income of $376k and spending of $621k, spending 165% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2023, income fell from $942k to $376k (-60%), an average of -60% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income dropped by 60%. Over the whole period it spent 117% 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, Bowie Volunteer Fire Dept and Rescue Squad Inc sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile, and in the 65th percentile within MD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pleasant Grove Volunteer Fire & Ems Department ($376k), Washington Township Volunteer Fire Co No 1 ($376k) and Tylersport Volunteer Fire Company ($375k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 57% of the total. It paid $25k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $106k, net assets of $1.0m.