Newsoms Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated

Analysis

Newsoms Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Newsoms, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2025. 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 December 2022, Newsoms Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated reported income of $140k and spending of $130k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income fell from $186k to $140k (-24%), an average of -8.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 71% 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, Newsoms Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 46th percentile, and in the 45th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include New Baltimore and Area Volunteer Fire Company ($140k), Blairstown Volunteer Fire a NJ Nonprofit Corporation ($140k) and Edgartown Firemens Association Inc ($140k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% of the total. At year end it held assets of $902k against liabilities of $53k, net assets of $849k.