Fair Bluff Fire Department and Rescue Squad Inc

Analysis

Fair Bluff Fire Department and Rescue Squad Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Fair Bluff, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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 2022, Fair Bluff Fire Department and Rescue Squad Inc reported income of $361k and spending of $397k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income grew from $334k to $361k (+8.0%), an average of +2.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 71%. Over the whole period it spent 113% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Fair Bluff Fire Department and Rescue Squad Inc sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 64th percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Chandler Care Center Childrens Medical and Dental Clinic Inc ($361k), Laurel Pregnancy Center Inc ($361k) and Foundation for Community Impact & Health Equity ($361k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 73% and program service revenue 26% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $134k. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $108k, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 17 employees.

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.