Mountain Home Volunteer Fire Department

Analysis

Mountain Home Volunteer Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Mountain Home, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2011, 15 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 September 2023, Mountain Home Volunteer Fire Department reported income of $169k and spending of $168k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income fell from $183k to $169k (-7.6%), an average of -2.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2020, when income rose by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 96% 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, Mountain Home 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 54th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hillsborough Township Volunteer Fire Co No 3 ($169k), Lake Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($169k) and Bellevue Fire Foundation ($169k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 82% of the total. At year end it held assets of $962k against liabilities of $166k, net assets of $796k.