Deale Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad Inc

Analysis

Deale Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Deale, MD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2007, 19 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, Deale Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad Inc reported income of $88k and spending of $49k, leaving 44% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $108k to $88k (-18%), an average of -5.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 30% 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, Deale Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad Inc sits at the 33rd percentile: it is larger than about 33% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 34th percentile, and in the 35th percentile within MD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dodgington Volunteer Fire Co ($88k), Fieldale Voluntary Fire Company Incorporated ($88k) and Shallow Water Blackout Prevention Inc ($88k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 25% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.9m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $3.9m.