Sullivan West Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Analysis

Sullivan West Volunteer Fire Department Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Kingsport, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2025. 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 2022, Sullivan West Volunteer Fire Department Inc reported income of $363k and spending of $296k, spending 82% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income grew from $275k to $363k (+32%), an average of +9.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 19%. 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, Sullivan West Volunteer Fire Department Inc sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include South Bay Fire Department Inc ($362k), Fort Johnson Volunteer Fire Company Inc ($363k) and Southport Volunteer Firemen Inc ($362k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $111k. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 6 employees.