West Hamblen County Volunteer Fire Department

Analysis

West Hamblen County Volunteer Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Talbott, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1975, 51 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 December 2023, West Hamblen County Volunteer Fire Department reported income of $291k and spending of $195k, leaving 33% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $123k to $291k (+137%), an average of +24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 353%. Over the whole period it spent 65% 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, West Hamblen County Volunteer Fire Department sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile, and in the 62nd percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Seville Volunteer Fire Dept ($291k), Falling Spring Fire Dept Inc ($291k) and North Franklin Township Volunteer ($291k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 57% of the total. At year end it held assets of $949k against liabilities of $2,114, net assets of $947k.