Six Mile Run Volunteer Fire Company

Analysis

Six Mile Run Volunteer Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Six Mile Run, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1988, 38 years ago. 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, Six Mile Run Volunteer Fire Company reported income of $202k and spending of $276k, spending 136% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $178k to $202k (+14%), an average of +3.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 149% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Six Mile Run Volunteer Fire Company sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile, and in the 52nd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include American Water Works Association ($202k), Landman Scholarship Trust ($202k) and Kootenai Senior Citizens ($202k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 49% of the total. At year end it held assets of $4.2m against liabilities of $130k, net assets of $4.1m.

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.