Pine Ridge Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated

Analysis

Pine Ridge Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Mount Airy, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2010, 16 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, Pine Ridge Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated reported income of $233k and spending of $262k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $135k to $233k (+72%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 132% 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, Pine Ridge Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile, and in the 55th percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Reynolds Store Volunteer Fire Company ($232k), Capracare Inc ($233k) and East Maine Fire Company Inc ($232k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 24% and program service revenue 76% of the total. At year end it held assets of $332k against liabilities of $374k, net assets of -$42k.

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.