Helena Community Volunteer Fire Department

Analysis

Helena Community Volunteer Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Helena, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2007, 19 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, Helena Community Volunteer Fire Department reported income of $146k and spending of $193k, spending 132% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $132k to $146k (+11%), an average of +2.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 98% 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, Helena Community Volunteer Fire Department sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 46th percentile, and in the 47th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Memphis-Shelby County Law Enforcement Foundation Inc ($146k), Ohio Association for Pupil Transportation ($146k) and Wilson Volunteer Fire Company ($146k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 88% of the total. At year end it held assets of $683k against liabilities of $312k, net assets of $371k.

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.