White Plains Volunteer Fire Department

Analysis

White Plains Volunteer Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Piedmont, AL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1999, 27 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, White Plains Volunteer Fire Department reported income of $170k and spending of $134k, leaving 21% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $82k to $170k (+108%), an average of +28% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 107%. Over the whole period it spent 118% 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, White Plains Volunteer Fire Department sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile, and in the 51st percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hardyston Township Volunteer Firedepartment Inc ($170k), Orange County Fire Authority Foundation ($170k) and Granville Rural Fire Department ($170k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $730k against liabilities of $371k, net assets of $359k.