Pricetown Volunteer Fire Dept

Analysis

Pricetown Volunteer Fire Dept is a registered charity in United States, based in Weston, WV. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2017, 9 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, Pricetown Volunteer Fire Dept reported income of $157k and spending of $171k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income fell from $209k to $157k (-25%), an average of -5.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2019, when income dropped by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 94% 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, Pricetown Volunteer Fire Dept sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile, and in the 46th percentile within WV. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cove Creek-Pearson Volunteer Fire Department ($157k), Hunt Volunteer Fire Department ($157k) and Castleton Community Volunteer Fire Company ($157k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 80% of the total. At year end it held assets of $424k against liabilities of $238k, net assets of $186k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.