Chester Volunteer Fire Department

Analysis

Chester Volunteer Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Chester, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, Chester Volunteer Fire Department reported income of $156k and spending of $219k, spending 140% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $137k to $156k (+14%), an average of +14% a year. Over the whole period it spent 118% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Chester Volunteer Fire Department sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile, and in the 48th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include SEND the Light ($156k), Interlakes Area United Way Corporation ($156k) and Tomlinson Touching Lives Foundation ($156k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 5.7% and program service revenue 90% of the total. At year end it held assets of $416k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $416k.