Tri-Community Volunteer Fire District

Analysis

Tri-Community Volunteer Fire District is a registered charity in United States, based in Bridgeton, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1981, 45 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 June 2023, Tri-Community Volunteer Fire District reported income of $591k and spending of $493k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2023, income grew from $512k to $591k (+15%), an average of +4.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 88% 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, Tri-Community Volunteer Fire District sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include East Greenville Fire Co-1 ($591k), Avalon Volunteer Fire Department ($591k) and West Lexington Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department Inc ($590k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.0m against liabilities of $1.1m, net assets of $1.8m.