Pottersville Volunteer Fire Company

Analysis

Pottersville Volunteer Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Pottersville, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1983, 43 years ago. 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, Pottersville Volunteer Fire Company reported income of $194k and spending of $225k, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $196k to $194k (-1.0%), an average of -0.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Pottersville Volunteer Fire Company sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile, and in the 60th percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Path of Life Recreational Association Inc ($194k), Sav-A-Life of Desoto County ($194k) and Spartawhite County Activity Center ($194k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 81% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.0m against liabilities of $224k, net assets of $802k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.