The Community Fire Company Incorporated

Analysis

The Community Fire Company Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Exmore, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2013, 13 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 December 2023, The Community Fire Company Incorporated reported income of $436k and spending of $390k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $395k to $436k (+10%), an average of +2.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 74% 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, The Community Fire Company Incorporated sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 68th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dalton Fire Company ($436k), Nancy Run Fire Company ($436k) and Hatzolah of Passaic Clifton Ems ($435k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 37% and program service revenue 62% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.5m against liabilities of $61k, net assets of $3.4m.