Blazing Arrow Hook & Ladder Co

Analysis

Blazing Arrow Hook & Ladder Co is a registered charity in United States, based in Tyrone, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1997, 29 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, Blazing Arrow Hook & Ladder Co reported income of $1.1m and spending of $672k, leaving 37% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $312k to $1.1m (+242%), an average of +36% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 128%. Over the whole period it spent 76% 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, Blazing Arrow Hook & Ladder Co sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tafton Fire Company Incorporated ($1.1m), The Friendship Hose Company No 1 of Newville Pa ($1.1m) and Lineboro Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 60% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $115k. At year end it held assets of $2.7m against liabilities of $932k, net assets of $1.8m.