Avoca Volunteer Fire Department

Analysis

Avoca Volunteer Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Bluff City, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2003, 23 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 2024, Avoca Volunteer Fire Department reported income of $181k and spending of $196k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income fell from $417k to $181k (-57%), an average of -19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income dropped by 68%. 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, Avoca Volunteer Fire Department sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 52nd percentile, and in the 52nd percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Butler Township Volunteer Fire District Relief Association ($181k), Oak to Timberline Fire Safe Council ($181k) and Indiana Township Volunteer Fire Company No1 ($181k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% and program service revenue 0.4% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $1,518, net assets of $1.1m.