Wysox Volunteer Fire Company

Analysis

Wysox Volunteer Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Wysox, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1992, 34 years ago. 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, Wysox Volunteer Fire Company reported income of $153k and spending of $222k, spending 146% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $188k to $153k (-19%), an average of -5.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 132%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Wysox Volunteer Fire Company sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile, and in the 45th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include World at Ease Inc ($153k), Layton Art Collection Inc ($153k) and Edina Crime Prevention Fund ($153k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.7m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2.7m.

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.