Lower Paxton Township Volunteer Firefighters Relief Association

Analysis

Lower Paxton Township Volunteer Firefighters Relief Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Harrisburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2009, 17 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, Lower Paxton Township Volunteer Firefighters Relief Association reported income of $504k and spending of $358k, leaving 29% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $507k to $504k (-0.6%), an average of -0.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 69% 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, Lower Paxton Township Volunteer Firefighters Relief Association sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 68th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Knox Area Vol Ambulance Co Inc ($504k), Midway Volunteer Fire Co ($504k) and Hamburg Volunteer Fire Dept Inc ($503k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 70% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $3,000 (0.8% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $3.0m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $3.0m.