District 16 Volunteer Fire Department

Analysis

District 16 Volunteer Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Cumberland, MD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1993, 33 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, District 16 Volunteer Fire Department reported income of $112k and spending of $127k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $261k to $112k (-57%), an average of -19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 102%. Over the whole period it spent 92% 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, District 16 Volunteer Fire Department sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile, and in the 41st percentile within MD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Snyder Fire Department Inc ($112k), Union Rural Fire Department of Hertford County Inc ($112k) and Cowen Vol Fire Dept Inc ($112k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 130% and program service revenue 6.1% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $195k, net assets of $1.6m.