Hampden Township Volunteer Firefighters Relief Association

Analysis

Hampden Township Volunteer Firefighters Relief Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Mechanicsburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2007, 19 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, Hampden Township Volunteer Firefighters Relief Association reported income of $315k and spending of $484k, spending 154% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $243k to $315k (+30%), an average of +6.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 186%. Over the whole period it spent 99% 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, Hampden Township Volunteer Firefighters Relief Association sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile, and in the 61st percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Gateswood Volunteer Fire Department ($315k), Gaston Volunteer Fire Dept Inc ($316k) and Windsor Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($315k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 82% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.2m.