Volunteer Firemans Relief Assn

Analysis

Volunteer Firemans Relief Assn is a registered charity in United States, based in Elizabethtown, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2002, 24 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 supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Volunteer Firemans Relief Assn reported income of $153k and spending of $112k, leaving 27% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $113k to $153k (+36%), an average of +8.0% a year. Over the whole period it spent 68% 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, Volunteer Firemans Relief Assn sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% 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 Coal Run Village Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($153k), Masontown Volunteer Fire Department ($153k) and Hawley Fire Department Inc ($153k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 89% of the total. At year end it held assets of $761k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $761k.