Pleasant Hills Volunteer Fire Company

Analysis

Pleasant Hills Volunteer Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Pittsburgh, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1994, 32 years ago. The IRS classifies it as a organisation supporting a government-owned college or university under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Pleasant Hills Volunteer Fire Company reported income of $322k and spending of $430k, spending 134% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $316k to $322k (+1.7%), an average of +0.4% a year. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Pleasant Hills Volunteer Fire Company sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile, and in the 61st percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kansas City Chorale ($321k), Jay N Schapira MD Medical Research Foundation Inc ($322k) and Mental Health Association of Kentucky Inc ($321k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 11% and program service revenue 82% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $62k (14% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $55k. At year end it held assets of $507k against liabilities of $11k, net assets of $496k. It reported 21 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.