The Volunteer Firemens Relief Assn of East Pennsboro Township

Analysis

The Volunteer Firemens Relief Assn of East Pennsboro Township is a registered charity in United States, based in Enola, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. 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, The Volunteer Firemens Relief Assn of East Pennsboro Township reported income of $143k and spending of $245k, spending 172% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $132k to $143k (+8.1%), an average of +2.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, The Volunteer Firemens Relief Assn of East Pennsboro Township sits at the 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 43% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 46th percentile, and in the 44th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Karat School Project ($143k), Bangladesh Center for Community Development Inc ($143k) and Heavens Gateway Ministries Inc ($143k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% of the total. At year end it held assets of $882k against liabilities of $367k, net assets of $515k.