Shavertown Volunteer Fire Department

Analysis

Shavertown Volunteer Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Shavertown, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1998, 28 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, Shavertown Volunteer Fire Department reported income of $162k and spending of $130k, spending 80% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $128k to $162k (+26%), an average of +6.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 65% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Shavertown Volunteer Fire Department sits at the 48th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile, and in the 47th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Urbi Et Orbi Communications Inc ($162k), Habitat for Humanity International Inc ($162k) and Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society ($162k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. At year end it held assets of $924k against liabilities of $307k, net assets of $617k.