Westfall Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Analysis

Westfall Volunteer Fire Department Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Matamoras, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1998, 28 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, Westfall Volunteer Fire Department Inc reported income of $431k and spending of $389k, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $462k to $431k (-6.7%), an average of -1.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 64%. Over the whole period it spent 76% 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, Westfall Volunteer Fire Department Inc sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Carroll Manor Fire Co Inc ($431k), Delaware County Board of Fire and Life Safety ($431k) and Tafton Ambulance Ep Inc ($431k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 68% and program service revenue 18% of the total. It paid $2,480 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $151k, net assets of $1.6m.