Walkerton Community Fire Association Incorporated

Analysis

Walkerton Community Fire Association Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Walkerton, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2000, 26 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 2024, Walkerton Community Fire Association Incorporated reported income of $154k and spending of $241k, spending 157% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2024, income grew from $107k to $154k (+44%), an average of +7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 53%. Over the whole period it spent 114% 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, Walkerton Community Fire Association Incorporated sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile, and in the 47th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lacrosse Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated ($154k), South Central Region Ems & Trauma Care Council ($154k) and Steele Volunteer Fire District ($154k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 73% of the total. At year end it held assets of $681k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $681k.

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.