Shawnee Valley Volunteer Fire Company

Analysis

Shawnee Valley Volunteer Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Schellsburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2025. 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, Shawnee Valley Volunteer Fire Company reported income of $218k and spending of $135k, leaving 38% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $137k to $218k (+58%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 206%. Over the whole period it spent 86% 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, Shawnee Valley Volunteer Fire Company sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% 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 Lone Hickory Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($218k), Tullytown Fire Company ($218k) and Brady Township Volunteer Fire Rescue & Ambulance Company Inc ($218k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 26% and program service revenue 20% of the total. At year end it held assets of $588k against liabilities of $98k, net assets of $490k.