Volunteer Firemen Relief Association of Exeter Township

Analysis

Volunteer Firemen Relief Association of Exeter Township is a registered charity in United States, based in Reading, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2014, 12 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, Volunteer Firemen Relief Association of Exeter Township reported income of $186k and spending of $159k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $165k to $186k (+13%), an average of +3.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 96% 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, Volunteer Firemen Relief Association of Exeter Township sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 52nd percentile, and in the 50th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Beachwood Emergency Medical Services Inc ($185k), Oak City Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($186k) and Worden Fire Department Inc ($185k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% and program service revenue 2.8% of the total. At year end it held assets of $733k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $733k.