Sevier County Volunteer Emergency Rescue Squad

Analysis

Sevier County Volunteer Emergency Rescue Squad is a registered charity in United States, based in Sevierville, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1989, 37 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, Sevier County Volunteer Emergency Rescue Squad reported income of $290k and spending of $252k, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $153k to $290k (+89%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 81%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Sevier County Volunteer Emergency Rescue Squad sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 46% 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 Guardians of the Ribbon Pink Heals Joliet Illinois ($290k), Cancer Care of NCW Inc ($290k) and Heart Reach Carmel Inc ($290k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 41% and program service revenue 57% of the total. It paid $15k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $512k against liabilities of $30k, net assets of $481k.