West Hanover Township Volunteer Fire Company

Analysis

West Hanover Township Volunteer Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Harrisburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2009, 17 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, West Hanover Township Volunteer Fire Company reported income of $106k and spending of $73k, leaving 31% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $84k to $106k (+26%), an average of +5.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 124%. Over the whole period it spent 52% 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, West Hanover Township Volunteer Fire Company sits at the 39th percentile: it is larger than about 39% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile, and in the 36th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tri-County Fire Co 1 ($106k), Newtown Voluteer Fire Company ($106k) and Belt Volunteer Ambulance Service ($106k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 66% of the total. It paid $5,244 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $902k against liabilities of $44k, net assets of $858k.