Gallatin-Sunnyside Volunteer Fire Company of Forward Township

Analysis

Gallatin-Sunnyside Volunteer Fire Company of Forward Township is a registered charity in United States, based in Monongahela, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2020, 6 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, Gallatin-Sunnyside Volunteer Fire Company of Forward Township reported income of $341k and spending of $257k, leaving 25% of income unspent that year. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $55k to $341k (+515%), an average of +148% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 637%. Over the whole period it spent 60% 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, Gallatin-Sunnyside Volunteer Fire Company of Forward Township sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile, and in the 62nd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lamott Fire Company No 1 ($341k), Homeland Preparedness Project ($341k) and Lansdowne Volunteer Fire Association No 1 Inc ($341k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% of the total. At year end it held assets of $599k against liabilities of $58k, net assets of $540k.