West Hills Regional Fire Department Inc

Analysis

West Hills Regional Fire Department Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Johnstown, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1995, 31 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 2023, West Hills Regional Fire Department Inc reported income of $560k and spending of $776k, spending 139% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $746k to $560k (-25%), an average of -6.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 74%. Over the whole period it spent 73% 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 Hills Regional Fire Department Inc sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 70th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hustontown Area Volunteer Fire Company ($560k), Lowville Fire Dept Inc ($560k) and Community Volunteer Fire Department of Bowleys Quarters & Vicinity Inc ($560k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 24% and program service revenue 52% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $322k. At year end it held assets of $2.9m against liabilities of $384k, net assets of $2.5m. It reported 38 employees.