Burrell Township Volunteer Fire Department of Armstrong County

Analysis

Burrell Township Volunteer Fire Department of Armstrong County is a registered charity in United States, based in Ford City, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2001, 25 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, Burrell Township Volunteer Fire Department of Armstrong County reported income of $58k and spending of $115k, spending 200% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $270k to $58k (-79%), an average of -32% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 55%. Over the whole period it spent 94% 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, Burrell Township Volunteer Fire Department of Armstrong County sits at the 21st percentile: it is larger than about 21% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 23rd percentile, and in the 21st percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Theo Wolf Foundation ($58k), Nursery Volunteer Fire Department ($58k) and Dubois Volunteer Fire Department ($57k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.7% and program service revenue 21% of the total. At year end it held assets of $437k against liabilities of $42k, net assets of $394k.

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.