Eau Claire Volunteer Fire Department and Auxiliary

Analysis

Eau Claire Volunteer Fire Department and Auxiliary is a registered charity in United States, based in Eau Claire, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Eau Claire Volunteer Fire Department and Auxiliary reported income of $65k and spending of $84k, spending 128% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $74k to $65k (-12%), an average of -3.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 111% 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, Eau Claire Volunteer Fire Department and Auxiliary sits at the 24th percentile: it is larger than about 24% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 26th percentile, and in the 24th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Holmes Marshall Volunteer Fire Co ($65k), Osceola Fire Department Inc ($65k) and Alpena Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($65k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 44% and program service revenue 14% of the total. It paid $1,602 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $348k against liabilities of $59k, net assets of $289k.

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.