Upper Frankford Township Volunteer Fire Company

Analysis

Upper Frankford Township Volunteer Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Newville, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1991, 35 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 2021, Upper Frankford Township Volunteer Fire Company reported income of $225k and spending of $298k, spending 132% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2021, income grew from $172k to $225k (+31%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 51%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Upper Frankford Township Volunteer Fire Company 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 Girdwood Center for Visual Arts Inc ($225k), Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in the Archdiocese of Boston ($225k) and Brooklyn Level Up Inc ($225k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2021, revenue came from program service revenue 70% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.6m against liabilities of $440k, net assets of $2.1m.