Ellicott City Volunteer Firemans Association Inc

Analysis

Ellicott City Volunteer Firemans Association Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Ellicott City, MD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 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 (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, Ellicott City Volunteer Firemans Association Inc reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.1m, spending 84% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $804k to $1.3m (+60%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 70%. Over the whole period it spent 99% 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, Ellicott City Volunteer Firemans Association Inc sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 81st percentile within MD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Echo Volunteer Rescue Squad ($1.3m), Crandell Volunteer Fire Department ($1.3m) and North Catawba Fire-Rescue Department Inc ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% of the total. It paid $27k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.2m.