Moorefield Volunteer Fire Company

Analysis

Moorefield Volunteer Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Moorefield, WV. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1996, 30 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, Moorefield Volunteer Fire Company reported income of $1.6m and spending of $428k, leaving 73% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $234k to $1.6m (+566%), an average of +61% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 103%. Over the whole period it spent 45% 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, Moorefield Volunteer Fire Company sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within WV. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Reynolds Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated ($1.6m), Plaquemines Community Care Centers Foundation Inc ($1.6m) and Second District Volunteer Fire Dept & Rescue Squad Inc ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 71% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.6m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $3.6m.