Shrewsbury Volunteer Fire Company

Analysis

Shrewsbury Volunteer Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Shrewsbury, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2013, 13 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, Shrewsbury Volunteer Fire Company reported income of $687k and spending of $617k, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $279k to $687k (+146%), an average of +25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 77%. 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, Shrewsbury Volunteer Fire Company sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ausable Forks Volunteer Ambulance Service Corporation ($686k), Tuolumne Fire Safe Council ($688k) and Washington Fire Department ($685k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 56% and program service revenue 2.0% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.1m against liabilities of $865k, net assets of $1.3m.