Pioneer Steam Fire Engine Company No 1 of Ephrata Pennsylvania

Analysis

Pioneer Steam Fire Engine Company No 1 of Ephrata Pennsylvania is a registered charity in United States, based in Ephrata, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1993, 33 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, Pioneer Steam Fire Engine Company No 1 of Ephrata Pennsylvania reported income of $294k and spending of $345k, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $337k to $294k (-13%), an average of -3.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 51%. Over the whole period it spent 86% 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, Pioneer Steam Fire Engine Company No 1 of Ephrata Pennsylvania sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile, and in the 59th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Second Alarmers Association of Philadelphia Inc ($294k), Foundation for Federal Enforcement & Homeland Security Corp ($294k) and Comision Ciudadana Para LA Auditoria Integral Del Credito Pub ($293k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 84% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.6m against liabilities of $476k, net assets of $2.1m.