Williams Township Community Volunteer Fire Department

Analysis

Williams Township Community Volunteer Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Whiteville, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2000, 26 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, Williams Township Community Volunteer Fire Department reported income of $248k and spending of $184k, leaving 26% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $272k to $248k (-8.8%), an average of -2.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 85% 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, Williams Township Community Volunteer Fire Department sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile, and in the 56th percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Moffat Volunteer Fire Department ($248k), Eugene Police Foundation ($248k) and Rio Vista Volunteer Fire Department ($248k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. At year end it held assets of $720k against liabilities of $231k, net assets of $489k.