Browndale Fire Company No 1

Analysis

Browndale Fire Company No 1 is a registered charity in United States, based in Browndale, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2001, 25 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, Browndale Fire Company No 1 reported income of $75k and spending of $108k, spending 144% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $53k to $75k (+41%), an average of +8.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 60%. Over the whole period it spent 152% 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, Browndale Fire Company No 1 sits at the 29th percentile: it is larger than about 28% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 29th percentile, and in the 28th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hamblen TWP Vol Fire Dept Inc ($75k), Escap Flight Operations Inc ($75k) and Monroeville Emergency Medical Services Inc ($75k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 55% of the total. At year end it held assets of $400k against liabilities of $191k, net assets of $209k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.