Kunkle Fire Company Inc

Analysis

Kunkle Fire Company Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Dallas, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2007, 19 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, Kunkle Fire Company Inc reported income of $1.4m and spending of $1.2m, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $656k to $1.4m (+113%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 105% 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, Kunkle Fire Company Inc sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 81st percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Jupiter Volunteer Fire Department ($1.4m), Boothwyn Fire Company No 1 ($1.4m) and Fallston Volunteer Fire and Ambulance Co Inc ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 41% and program service revenue 56% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $391k. It paid $4,976 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $502k, net assets of $678k.