Sunset Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Analysis

Sunset Volunteer Fire Department Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Sunset, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1997, 29 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, Sunset Volunteer Fire Department Inc reported income of $166k and spending of $171k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $67k to $166k (+147%), an average of +25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 186%. Over the whole period it spent 98% 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, Sunset Volunteer Fire Department Inc sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile, and in the 53rd percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mott Volunteer Fire Brigade ($166k), Buncombe Creek Volunteer Fire Department ($166k) and Bradley Gardens Volunteer Fire Company Inc ($166k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 89% and program service revenue 9.5% of the total. At year end it held assets of $528k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $528k.