Ringgold Area Volunteer Fire Company

Analysis

Ringgold Area Volunteer Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Ringgold, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2011, 15 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, Ringgold Area Volunteer Fire Company reported income of $232k and spending of $74k, leaving 68% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $109k to $232k (+112%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 70%. Over the whole period it spent 46% 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, Ringgold Area Volunteer Fire Company sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile, and in the 54th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Saxeville-Springwater Vol Fire Engine Co ($232k), Wales Center Volunteer Fire Co Inc ($232k) and Cornplanter Township Volunteer Fire Department ($232k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 64% and program service revenue 4.7% of the total. At year end it held assets of $729k against liabilities of $49k, net assets of $680k.