Hemlock Farms Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company

Analysis

Hemlock Farms Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Lords Valley, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1971, 55 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 2021, Hemlock Farms Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company reported income of $646k and spending of $615k, spending 95% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2021, income grew from $444k to $646k (+45%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Hemlock Farms Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Inc ($646k), Family Crisis Services Inc ($646k) and Volunteers of America Inc ($646k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2021, revenue came from contributions and grants 61% and program service revenue 35% of the total. It paid $3,393 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $1.9m against liabilities of $102k, net assets of $1.8m.