Lehigh and Lausanne Rural Volunteer Fire Company

Analysis

Lehigh and Lausanne Rural Volunteer Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Weatherly, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2014, 12 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, Lehigh and Lausanne Rural Volunteer Fire Company reported income of $53k and spending of $90k, spending 170% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $60k to $53k (-12%), an average of -3.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 93%. Over the whole period it spent 77% 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, Lehigh and Lausanne Rural Volunteer Fire Company sits at the 19th percentile: it is larger than about 19% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 21st percentile, and in the 19th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Chittenango Volunteer Fire Department ($53k), Ashleys Orphans ($53k) and Wynantskill Fire Department ($53k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. At year end it held assets of $544k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $544k.