Melfa Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company Inc

Analysis

Melfa Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Melfa, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2016, 10 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 April 2024, Melfa Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company Inc reported income of $402k and spending of $324k, spending 81% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2020 to April 2024, income grew from $285k to $402k (+41%), an average of +9.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 104% 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, Melfa Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company Inc sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Jackson Community Volunteer Fire and Rescue Inc ($402k), Leaksville Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($402k) and Tri-Village Fire Company Inc ($402k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending April 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 78% and program service revenue 21% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $87k. At year end it held assets of $624k against liabilities of $61k, net assets of $563k.