Pleasant Plains Volunteer Fire Co

Analysis

Pleasant Plains Volunteer Fire Co is a registered charity in United States, based in Toms River, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 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, Pleasant Plains Volunteer Fire Co reported income of $181k and spending of $152k, spending 84% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $234k to $181k (-23%), an average of -6.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 64%. Over the whole period it spent 97% 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, Pleasant Plains Volunteer Fire Co sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 59th percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Yadkin Valley Volunteer Fire-Rescue Department Inc ($181k), Dauphin Middle Paxton Fire Company 1 Inc ($181k) and Rocky Hill Hook and Ladder Co No 1 Inc ($180k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 60% of the total. At year end it held assets of $921k against liabilities of $2,812, net assets of $918k.