Bullard Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Analysis

Bullard Volunteer Fire Department Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Bullard, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2025. 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, Bullard Volunteer Fire Department Inc reported income of $227k and spending of $280k, spending 124% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $45k to $227k (+403%), an average of +50% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 217%. Over the whole period it spent 95% 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, Bullard Volunteer Fire Department Inc sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile, and in the 60th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lamar County Firefighters Association ($227k), West Fort Ann Volunteer Firecompany Inc ($227k) and Switzerland County Fire Chiefs Corporation ($226k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 127% of the total. At year end it held assets of $841k against liabilities of $266k, net assets of $575k.