Holiday Park Volunteer Fire Department

Analysis

Holiday Park Volunteer Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Pittsburgh, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1996, 30 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 (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 2023, Holiday Park Volunteer Fire Department reported income of $529k and spending of $627k, spending 119% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $343k to $529k (+54%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 108% 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, Holiday Park Volunteer Fire Department sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 69th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sierra Avalanche Center ($528k), Partners for Automated Vehicle Education Inc ($529k) and Beeson Cross Roads Fire and Rescue Inc ($528k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 52% and program service revenue 0.2% of the total. It paid $5,861 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $3.5m against liabilities of $803k, net assets of $2.6m.

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.