Walker Township Fire Company

Analysis

Walker Township Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Mingoville, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1996, 30 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, Walker Township Fire Company reported income of $765k and spending of $276k, leaving 64% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $164k to $765k (+367%), an average of +47% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 111%. Over the whole period it spent 56% 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, Walker Township Fire Company sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 74th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Old Forge Volunteer Ambulance Corps Inc ($765k), Block Island Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department ($766k) and Harkers Island Fire & Rescue Department Inc ($765k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $266k, net assets of $1.6m.