East Side Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated

Analysis

East Side Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Albemarle, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1997, 29 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 November 2023, East Side Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated reported income of $278k and spending of $255k, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from November 2019 to November 2023, income fell from $715k to $278k (-61%), an average of -21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to November 2020, when income dropped by 64%. Over the whole period it spent 71% 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, East Side Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile, and in the 58th percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Matagorda Volunteer Fire Deparment ($278k), 1201-5400 Corporation ($278k) and Springville Volunteer Fire Company ($277k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending November 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $27k. At year end it held assets of $2.4m against liabilities of $1.3m, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 4 employees.