Claridge Volunteer Fire Department and Relief Association

Analysis

Claridge Volunteer Fire Department and Relief Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Claridge, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 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, Claridge Volunteer Fire Department and Relief Association reported income of $236k and spending of $241k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $387k to $236k (-39%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 76% 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, Claridge Volunteer Fire Department and Relief Association sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile, and in the 55th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Albion Volunteer Fire Department ($236k), Sullivan County Volunteer Fire Department No 1 ($236k) and The Wadesville Center Township Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($236k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 36% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.0m against liabilities of $470k, net assets of $535k.