Volunteer Fire Department of Carroll Township

Analysis

Volunteer Fire Department of Carroll Township is a registered charity in United States, based in Monongahela, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2017, 9 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, Volunteer Fire Department of Carroll Township reported income of $207k and spending of $296k, spending 143% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $280k to $207k (-26%), an average of -7.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 102%. Over the whole period it spent 84% 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, Volunteer Fire Department of Carroll Township sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile, and in the 52nd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fire Cheifs Assn of Broward County ($207k), Corolla Fire and Rescue Foundation ($207k) and Dunnstown Fire Company ($207k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 31% of the total. It paid $900 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $539k against liabilities of $20k, net assets of $519k.