Tullytown Fire Company

Analysis

Tullytown Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Tullytown, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1996, 30 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, Tullytown Fire Company reported income of $218k and spending of $204k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $191k to $218k (+14%), an average of +3.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 125% 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, Tullytown Fire Company sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile, and in the 53rd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Shawnee Valley Volunteer Fire Company ($218k), Williamson Fire and Emergency Services Inc ($218k) and Lone Hickory Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($218k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. It paid $1,107 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $1.0m against liabilities of $140k, net assets of $883k.