Shohola Township Volunteer Fire & Rescue Inc

Analysis

Shohola Township Volunteer Fire & Rescue Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Shohola, 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 (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Shohola Township Volunteer Fire & Rescue Inc reported income of $160k and spending of $239k, spending 149% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $140k to $160k (+14%), an average of +4.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 58%. Over the whole period it spent 160% 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, Shohola Township Volunteer Fire & Rescue Inc 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 49th percentile, and in the 46th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cool Springs Community Fire Dept Inc ($160k), Mt Morris Fire Foundation NFP ($160k) and Lawrence Township Volunteer Fire Co 1 ($160k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 92% of the total. At year end it held assets of $514k against liabilities of $88k, net assets of $426k.

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.