The Glen Dale Fire Association Inc

Analysis

The Glen Dale Fire Association Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Glenn Dale, MD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1991, 35 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2022, The Glen Dale Fire Association Inc reported income of $183k and spending of $229k, spending 125% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income fell from $210k to $183k (-13%), an average of -4.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 80%. Over the whole period it spent 137% 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, The Glen Dale Fire Association Inc sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 52nd percentile, and in the 52nd percentile within MD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Safety Team Inc ($183k), Ararat Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated ($184k) and Oakland Volunteer Fire Company ($183k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 74% of the total. At year end it held assets of $520k against liabilities of $267k, net assets of $253k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.