Sabine Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Analysis

Sabine Volunteer Fire Department Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Kilgore, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2012, 14 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, Sabine Volunteer Fire Department Inc reported income of $1.1m and spending of $1.1m, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $335k to $1.1m (+225%), an average of +34% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 75%. Over the whole period it spent 100% 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, Sabine Volunteer Fire Department Inc sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Grace Chapel Volunteer Fire ($1.1m), New Kingstown Fire Company ($1.1m) and Malta Ridge Volunteer Fire Co Inc ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $98k (8.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $450k. At year end it held assets of $326k against liabilities of $39k, net assets of $288k. It reported 14 employees.