Lackawaxen Township Volunteer Fire Dept

Analysis

Lackawaxen Township Volunteer Fire Dept is a registered charity in United States, based in Lackawaxen, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 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, Lackawaxen Township Volunteer Fire Dept reported income of $231k and spending of $190k, spending 82% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $137k to $231k (+69%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 90% 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, Lackawaxen Township Volunteer Fire Dept sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile, and in the 54th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Harbin VFD ($231k), Cove City Fire Department Inc ($232k) and Ekalaka Volunteer Fire Department of Ekalaka Montana ($231k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 79% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $230k, net assets of $920k.