Tidioute Volunteer Fire Department

Analysis

Tidioute Volunteer Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Tidioute, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1999, 27 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 2021, Tidioute Volunteer Fire Department reported income of $253k and spending of $143k, leaving 43% of income unspent that year. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2021, income fell from $416k to $253k (-39%), an average of -22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 66% 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, Tidioute Volunteer Fire Department sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile, and in the 56th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sims Community Rural Fire Department ($252k), Penderlea Fire Department ($253k) and Penn Hills Volunteer Firemens Relief Association Inc ($252k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2021, revenue came from contributions and grants 28% and program service revenue 67% of the total. At year end it held assets of $508k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $508k.