Pattison Area Volunter Fire Department Incorporated

Analysis

Pattison Area Volunter Fire Department Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Pattison, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2001, 25 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2022, Pattison Area Volunter Fire Department Incorporated reported income of $152k and spending of $146k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income fell from $255k to $152k (-40%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 237%. Over the whole period it spent 75% 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, Pattison Area Volunter Fire Department Incorporated sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 47th percentile, and in the 51st percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Carson Sheriff Station Support Foundation ($152k), West Granville TWP Fire Company ($152k) and Montezuma Fire Dept Inc ($152k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 51% of the total. It paid $17k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.1m.