Marion Center Volunteer Fire Department

Analysis

Marion Center Volunteer Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Marion Center, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2006, 20 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, Marion Center Volunteer Fire Department reported income of $70k and spending of $59k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $106k to $70k (-34%), an average of -9.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 263%. Over the whole period it spent 56% 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, Marion Center Volunteer Fire Department sits at the 26th percentile: it is larger than about 26% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 27th percentile, and in the 26th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Phoenix Fire Company 6 Inc ($70k), G V F D Inc ($70k) and Northeast Harbor Ambulance Service Inc ($70k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 56% of the total. At year end it held assets of $192k against liabilities of $19k, net assets of $174k.