Community Volunteer Fire Department of Bowleys Quarters & Vicinity Inc

Analysis

Community Volunteer Fire Department of Bowleys Quarters & Vicinity Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Baltimore, MD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1987, 39 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 2023, Community Volunteer Fire Department of Bowleys Quarters & Vicinity Inc reported income of $560k and spending of $584k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $618k to $560k (-9.5%), an average of -2.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 51%. 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, Community Volunteer Fire Department of Bowleys Quarters & Vicinity Inc sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 71st percentile within MD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kiefer Foundation ($559k), Hustontown Area Volunteer Fire Company ($560k) and Latino Worker Safety Center ($559k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 48% and program service revenue 42% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.5m against liabilities of $476k, net assets of $2.1m.