Elrama Community Volunteer Fire Company and Relief Association

Analysis

Elrama Community Volunteer Fire Company and Relief Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Elrama, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2019, 7 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, Elrama Community Volunteer Fire Company and Relief Association reported income of $251k and spending of $225k, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $153k to $251k (+64%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 135%. Over the whole period it spent 61% 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, Elrama Community Volunteer Fire Company and Relief Association 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 McDonald Volunteer Fire Dept ($251k), New Jersey Association for Floodplain Management ($251k) and Colorado Front Range Mine Rescue Inc ($251k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 5.5% of the total. It paid $2,396 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.6m.