Prairie Township Volunteer Fire Dept

Analysis

Prairie Township Volunteer Fire Dept is a registered charity in United States, based in Holmesville, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1999, 27 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Prairie Township Volunteer Fire Dept reported income of $56k and spending of $23k, leaving 58% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $66k to $56k (-16%), an average of -4.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 82%. Over the whole period it spent 40% 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, Prairie Township Volunteer Fire Dept sits at the 20th percentile: it is larger than about 20% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 22nd percentile, and in the 22nd percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hollins Volunteer Fire and Rescue ($56k), Cachagua Volunteer Firefighters Inc ($56k) and Dickerson Run Liberty & Vanderbilt Vol Fire Dept ($56k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 13% of the total. At year end it held assets of $994k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $994k.