West Deer Township Volunteer Fire Department No 1

Analysis

West Deer Township Volunteer Fire Department No 1 is a registered charity in United States, based in Tarentum, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 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 (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 2022, West Deer Township Volunteer Fire Department No 1 reported income of $194k and spending of $116k, leaving 40% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income grew from $157k to $194k (+23%), an average of +7.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 92%. Over the whole period it spent 57% 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, West Deer Township Volunteer Fire Department No 1 sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile, and in the 51st percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tyrone Volunteer Fire Company Inc ($194k), Waymart Volunteer Fire Company ($194k) and Pensacola Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($194k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.1m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2.1m.