Brookline Fire Company

Analysis

Brookline Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Bryn Mawr, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2012, 14 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, Brookline Fire Company reported income of $147k and spending of $245k, spending 166% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $149k to $147k (-1.4%), an average of -0.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 105%. Over the whole period it spent 119% 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, Brookline Fire Company sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 47th percentile, and in the 44th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rice Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($147k), Keystone Fire Co No 1 ($147k) and Bluewell Volunteer Fire Department ($147k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $166k, net assets of $1.0m.