Girdwood Volunteer Fire and Rescue Inc

Analysis

Girdwood Volunteer Fire and Rescue Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Girdwood, AK. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1999, 27 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 2023, Girdwood Volunteer Fire and Rescue Inc reported income of $2.0m and spending of $2.2m, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $2.0m (+78%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 97% 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, Girdwood Volunteer Fire and Rescue Inc sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within AK. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Impact Teen Drivers Fund ($2.0m), Monmouth Beach Fire Company Inc ($2.0m) and Geneva Lake Water Safety Comm Inc ($2.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 17% and program service revenue 83% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.2m. At year end it held assets of $282k against liabilities of -$8,392, net assets of $290k. It reported 40 employees.