Sheldon Community Volunteer Fire & Rescue Inc

Analysis

Sheldon Community Volunteer Fire & Rescue Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, Sheldon Community Volunteer Fire & Rescue Inc reported income of $6.0m and spending of $6.2m, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $5.7m to $6.0m (+5.8%), an average of +1.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Sheldon Community Volunteer Fire & Rescue Inc sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 95th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mt Olive Family Medicine Center Inc ($6.0m), Teen Challenge Ranch of Northwest Arkansas Inc ($6.0m) and Sayre Health Center ($6.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.4% and program service revenue 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $3.6m. At year end it held assets of $636k against liabilities of $223k, net assets of $413k. It reported 89 employees.