Bacon District Volunteer Fire Dept

Analysis

Bacon District Volunteer Fire Dept is a registered charity in United States, based in Wylliesburg, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1967, 59 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, Bacon District Volunteer Fire Dept reported income of $73k and spending of $104k, spending 144% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $138k to $73k (-47%), an average of -15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 141%. Over the whole period it spent 102% 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, Bacon District Volunteer Fire Dept sits at the 27th percentile: it is larger than about 27% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 28th percentile, and in the 28th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Black Hills Shootist Association Ltd ($73k), Volunteer Firemens Association of Falconer Inc ($73k) and Martindale Volunteer Fire Department Company ($72k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $542k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $542k.

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.