Masontown Volunteer Fire Department

Analysis

Masontown Volunteer Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Masontown, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2013, 13 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, Masontown Volunteer Fire Department reported income of $153k and spending of $134k, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $157k to $153k (-2.3%), an average of -0.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 93% 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, Masontown Volunteer Fire Department sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile, and in the 45th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Volunteer Firemans Relief Assn ($153k), Weston Volunteer Fire Dept ($153k) and Coal Run Village Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($153k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 32% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.0m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.0m.