Harrod Volunteer Firefighters

Analysis

Harrod Volunteer Firefighters is a registered charity in United States, based in Harrod, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2016, 10 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, Harrod Volunteer Firefighters reported income of $83k and spending of $97k, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $72k to $83k (+15%), an average of +3.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 130% 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, Harrod Volunteer Firefighters sits at the 32nd percentile: it is larger than about 32% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 32nd percentile, and in the 32nd percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Glen Ridge Volunteer Ambulance Squad Inc ($83k), Lower Yoder Township Volunteer Fire Co Relief Assn ($83k) and Safe Roads Alliance Inc ($83k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $217k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $217k.

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.