Hamilton Safety Center

Analysis

Hamilton Safety Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Hamilton, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2002, 24 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 supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Hamilton Safety Center reported income of $213k and spending of $165k, leaving 23% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $242k to $213k (-12%), an average of -3.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 15%. Over the whole period it spent 80% 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, Hamilton Safety Center sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile, and in the 55th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include East Durham Volunteer Fire Co Inc ($213k), Volunteer Exempt Firefighters Benevolent Assn of Huntington Mano ($213k) and Kansas Community Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($213k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.5% and program service revenue 92% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.9m against liabilities of $631k, net assets of $1.2m.