Pattenburg Volunteer Fire Company

Analysis

Pattenburg Volunteer Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Clinton, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1990, 36 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, Pattenburg Volunteer Fire Company reported income of $193k and spending of $263k, spending 137% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $203k to $193k (-5.2%), an average of -1.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 95%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Pattenburg 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 Reigning Grace Counseling Center ($193k), St Joseph High School Endowment Fund ($193k) and Wisdom Community ($193k).

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 $664k against liabilities of $447k, net assets of $217k.