Byrd Community Volunteer Fire Department

Analysis

Byrd Community Volunteer Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Detroit, AL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2016, 10 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Byrd Community Volunteer Fire Department reported income of $178k and spending of $167k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $88k to $178k (+102%), an average of +26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 97% 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, Byrd Community 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 51st percentile, and in the 52nd percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ironia Firemens Association ($178k), Cutting Edge Relief Corporation ($178k) and Englewood Hulls Volunteer Fire Department ($178k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 40% and program service revenue 60% of the total. At year end it held assets of $657k against liabilities of $317k, net assets of $341k.