McKinley Volunteer Firefighters Relief Association

Analysis

McKinley Volunteer Firefighters Relief Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Elkins Park, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2009, 17 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, McKinley Volunteer Firefighters Relief Association reported income of $107k and spending of $171k, spending 160% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $194k to $107k (-45%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 96%. Over the whole period it spent 150% 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, McKinley Volunteer Firefighters Relief Association sits at the 40th percentile: it is larger than about 40% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 39th percentile, and in the 37th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hoover Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($107k), Culberson Volunteer Fire Department NC ($107k) and Shenango Area Fire District ($107k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 81% of the total. At year end it held assets of $965k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $965k.