Delaware County Board of Fire and Life Safety

Analysis

Delaware County Board of Fire and Life Safety is a registered charity in United States, based in Sharon Hill, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1985, 41 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 2022, Delaware County Board of Fire and Life Safety reported income of $431k and spending of $558k, spending 129% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income fell from $727k to $431k (-41%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 101% 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, Delaware County Board of Fire and Life Safety sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Westfall Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($431k), Sigel Volunteer Fire Department ($431k) and Carroll Manor Fire Co Inc ($431k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.2% and program service revenue 87% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $187k. At year end it held assets of $4.9m against liabilities of $2,470, net assets of $4.9m. It reported 60 employees.