The Hastings Fire Department Relief Association

Analysis

The Hastings Fire Department Relief Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Hastings, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2025. 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 2022, The Hastings Fire Department Relief Association reported income of $349k and spending of $106k, leaving 70% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income fell from $436k to $349k (-20%), an average of -7.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 84% 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, The Hastings Fire Department Relief Association sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile, and in the 63rd percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Western Salisbury Volunteer Fire Company ($349k), Ocean Park Volunteer Fire and Rescue Unit Inc ($349k) and Franklin Township Volunteer Fire Company ($348k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 65% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $8,070 (7.6% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $4.9m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $4.9m.