Community Volunteer Fire Company of Lower Alsace Township

Analysis

Community Volunteer Fire Company of Lower Alsace Township is a registered charity in United States, based in Reading, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 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 2020, Community Volunteer Fire Company of Lower Alsace Township reported income of $79k and spending of $121k, spending 153% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2020, income fell from $107k to $79k (-26%), an average of -26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 155% 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, Community Volunteer Fire Company of Lower Alsace Township sits at the 30th percentile: it is larger than about 30% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 31st percentile, and in the 29th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Roxton Volunteer Fire Dept ($79k), Ocean Bay Park Volunteer Fire Department ($79k) and Hawaiian Lifeguard Association ($79k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2020, revenue came from contributions and grants 59% and program service revenue 14% of the total. At year end it held assets of $550k against liabilities of $410k, net assets of $140k.