Citizens Fire Company Inc

Analysis

Citizens Fire Company Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Charles Town, WV. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2026. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Citizens Fire Company Inc reported income of $573k and spending of $629k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $782k to $573k (-27%), an average of -7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 78%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Citizens Fire Company Inc sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 70th percentile within WV. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Peaceful Family Solutions Inc ($573k), Village Store- a Community Thrift Shop ($574k) and Kare Inc ($573k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 33% and program service revenue 25% of the total. At year end it held assets of $6.4m against liabilities of $270k, net assets of $6.2m.