Westside Volunteer Firefighters Inc

Analysis

Westside Volunteer Firefighters Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Saint Albans, WV. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1998, 28 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, Westside Volunteer Firefighters Inc reported income of $286k and spending of $347k, spending 121% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $174k to $286k (+65%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 148% 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, Westside Volunteer Firefighters Inc sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile, and in the 59th percentile within WV. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Caernarvon Fire Company ($286k), Balsam Grove Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($286k) and Marbury Volunteer Fire Department ($286k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 79% of the total. At year end it held assets of $678k against liabilities of $568k, net assets of $109k.

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.