Hampden Township Volunteer Fire Company

Analysis

Hampden Township Volunteer Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Mechanicsburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1999, 27 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, Hampden Township Volunteer Fire Company reported income of $276k and spending of $384k, spending 139% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $258k to $276k (+6.9%), an average of +1.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 102% 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, Hampden Township Volunteer Fire Company sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile, and in the 58th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sinclairville Vol Fire Company No 1 Inc ($276k), North Boston Volunteer Fire Company Inc ($276k) and Town of Glen Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($276k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. At year end it held assets of $653k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $653k.

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.