Adams Area Fire District Inc

Analysis

Adams Area Fire District Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Mars, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2000, 26 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, Adams Area Fire District Inc reported income of $462k and spending of $422k, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $470k to $462k (-1.8%), an average of -0.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 58%. Over the whole period it spent 70% 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, Adams Area Fire District Inc sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 67th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Seven Lakes Fire Rescue and Ems ($461k), Hegins Area Ambulance Association ($462k) and Kilmarnock Lancaster County Volunteer Rescue Squard Inc ($460k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $53k. At year end it held assets of $3.2m against liabilities of $246k, net assets of $2.9m. It reported 32 employees.