Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department

Analysis

Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Mt Pleasant, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2025. 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, Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department reported income of $190k and spending of $180k, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $215k to $190k (-12%), an average of -3.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 101%. Over the whole period it spent 96% 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, Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile, and in the 50th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bennington Volunteer Fire Company Inc ($190k), Hanson Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($190k) and Farmington Fire Department Inc ($190k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 43% and program service revenue 7.6% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.1m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2.1m.