Edinboro Volunteer Fire Department

Analysis

Edinboro Volunteer Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Edinboro, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2019, 7 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, Edinboro Volunteer Fire Department reported income of $1.7m and spending of $1.7m, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.0m to $1.7m (-17%), an average of -4.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 99% 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, Edinboro Volunteer Fire Department sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Worcester Volunteer Fire Department ($1.7m), Valley Regional Fire and Rescue Inc ($1.7m) and Pleasant Garden Fire Department Incorporated ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 23% and program service revenue 14% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $784k. At year end it held assets of $2.1m against liabilities of $964k, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 84 employees.

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.