Polk Township Volunteer Fire Co

Analysis

Polk Township Volunteer Fire Co is a registered charity in United States, based in Kresgeville, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2025. 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, Polk Township Volunteer Fire Co reported income of $358k and spending of $291k, spending 81% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $132k to $358k (+171%), an average of +28% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 117%. Over the whole period it spent 99% 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, Polk Township Volunteer Fire Co sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 63rd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tri-County Firesafe Working Group ($358k), Cedar Grove Fire Department Inc ($358k) and Bedford Volunteer Fire Department ($358k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 80% and program service revenue 0.7% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $155k, net assets of $947k.