Bendersville Community Fire Company Incorporated

Analysis

Bendersville Community Fire Company Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Bendersville, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 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, Bendersville Community Fire Company Incorporated reported income of $300k and spending of $296k, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $336k to $300k (-11%), an average of -2.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 46% 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, Bendersville Community Fire Company Incorporated sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 60th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Freedom Township Volunteer Fire Co ($300k), Factoryville Fire Company ($300k) and Derry TWP Volunteer Fire Dept & Relief Assoc ($299k).

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 $2.1m against liabilities of $648k, net assets of $1.4m.