Hatfield Volunteer Firefighters Relief Association

Analysis

Hatfield Volunteer Firefighters Relief Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Hatfield, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1999, 27 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, Hatfield Volunteer Firefighters Relief Association reported income of $116k and spending of $150k, spending 129% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $133k to $116k (-12%), an average of -3.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 161% 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, Hatfield Volunteer Firefighters Relief Association sits at the 42nd percentile: it is larger than about 42% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 41st percentile, and in the 39th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ionia Volunteer Fire Company Inc ($116k), Holstein Fire & Ambulance Association ($116k) and North Merrick Fire Departmentincorporated ($116k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $416k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $416k.

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.