Jefferson Volunteer Fire Company

Analysis

Jefferson Volunteer Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Jefferson, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2000, 26 years ago. 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, Jefferson Volunteer Fire Company reported income of $220k and spending of $308k, spending 140% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $394k to $220k (-44%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 116% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Jefferson Volunteer Fire Company sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile, and in the 53rd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Nine Muses Foundation ($220k), Move for America ($220k) and Little League Baseball Inc ($220k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 49% and program service revenue 16% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.6m against liabilities of $229k, net assets of $2.4m.