The Big Run Volunteer Fire Company & Relief Association

Analysis

The Big Run Volunteer Fire Company & Relief Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Big Run, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1983, 43 years ago. 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, The Big Run Volunteer Fire Company & Relief Association reported income of $225k and spending of $164k, leaving 27% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $146k to $225k (+54%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, The Big Run Volunteer Fire Company & Relief Association sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile, and in the 54th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kids Fund Inc ($225k), Salem County Humane Society ($225k) and St Anns Donor TR ($225k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 14% and program service revenue 15% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $865k, net assets of $311k.