Muenster Volunteer Fire Department

Analysis

Muenster Volunteer Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Muenster, 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, Muenster Volunteer Fire Department reported income of $276k and spending of $325k, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $265k to $276k (+3.9%), an average of +1.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 137%. 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, Muenster Volunteer Fire Department sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile, and in the 64th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pleasant Hill Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated ($276k), Gatesville Fire Department Inc ($276k) and Volunteer Fire Department of Spring Field Township ($276k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.5m.