Morrell Volunteer Fire Company

Analysis

Morrell Volunteer Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Dunbar, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2014, 12 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, Morrell Volunteer Fire Company reported income of $170k and spending of $247k, spending 145% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $212k to $170k (-20%), an average of -5.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 114% 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, Morrell 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 50th percentile, and in the 48th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Resilience Guild ($170k), Everett Fire Company No 1 ($170k) and Dennys Employee Disaster Relief Fund Inc ($170k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 88% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.0m against liabilities of $100k, net assets of $943k.

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.