Lower Augusta Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Analysis

Lower Augusta Volunteer Fire Department Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Sunbury, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1995, 31 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, Lower Augusta Volunteer Fire Department Inc reported income of $94k and spending of $131k, spending 140% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $55k to $94k (+72%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 100%. Over the whole period it spent 153% 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, Lower Augusta Volunteer Fire Department Inc sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 35th percentile, and in the 33rd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Firefighters Benevolent of Pembroke Pines Inc ($94k), Madison Community Policing Foundation Inc ($94k) and Monroe Tri Community Volunteer Fire Department ($94k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. At year end it held assets of $311k against liabilities of $77k, net assets of $234k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.