Four Communities Fire Department

Analysis

Four Communities Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Sharpes, FL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1980, 46 years ago. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Four Communities Fire Department reported income of $69k and spending of $62k, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $62k to $69k (+12%), an average of +2.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 118%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Four Communities Fire Department sits at the 27th percentile: it is larger than about 27% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 27th percentile, and in the 31st percentile within FL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of the Libraries of Nevada County ($69k), Kenmore Elementary PTA ($69k) and International Order of the Rainbow Girls ($69k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 12% and program service revenue 31% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $2,600. At year end it held assets of $519k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $519k.