Hempfield Fire Department

Analysis

Hempfield Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Salunga, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1990, 36 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, Hempfield Fire Department reported income of $101k and spending of $235k, spending 233% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $142k to $101k (-29%), an average of -8.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 148% 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, Hempfield Fire Department sits at the 38th percentile: it is larger than about 38% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 37th percentile, and in the 35th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lander Volunteer Fire Department ($101k), Marshall Fire Dept ($101k) and Servia Volunteer Fire Department ($101k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 111% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.7m.