York Fire Department Inc

Analysis

York Fire Department Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in York, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 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, York Fire Department Inc reported income of $553k and spending of $248k, leaving 55% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $221k to $553k (+150%), an average of +26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 125%. Over the whole period it spent 78% 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, York Fire Department Inc sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 68th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Yankee Hill Fire Safe Council ($552k), Friendship Fire and Hose Company No 1 of Elizabethtown Pennsylvania ($553k) and Bridgewater Fire Department Inc ($551k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 83% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $76k, net assets of $1.5m.