Black Volunteer Fire Department

Analysis

Black Volunteer Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Black, AL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2021, 5 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, Black Volunteer Fire Department reported income of $62k and spending of $65k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $84k to $62k (-27%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 366%. Over the whole period it spent 105% 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, Black Volunteer Fire Department sits at the 23rd percentile: it is larger than about 23% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 24th percentile, and in the 23rd percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cuba Fire Department ($62k), Trough Creek Valley Volunteer Fire Company ($62k) and Whitney Marsh Foundation Inc ($62k).

At year end it held assets of $0 against liabilities of $0, net assets of $0.