Third District Volunteer Fire Department

Analysis

Third District Volunteer Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in River Ridge, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1983, 43 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, Third District Volunteer Fire Department reported income of $5.2m and spending of $5.4m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $4.0m to $5.2m (+31%), an average of +7.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 29%. 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, Third District Volunteer Fire Department sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 99% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Keller Williams Realty Cares ($5.2m), Do No Harm ($5.2m) and Enka Candler Fire and Rescue Inc ($5.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $2.7m. At year end it held assets of $5.2m against liabilities of $1.4m, net assets of $3.8m. It reported 58 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.