Lightstreet Community Fire Company

Analysis

Lightstreet Community Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Bloomsburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2003, 23 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, Lightstreet Community Fire Company reported income of $160k and spending of $117k, leaving 27% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $116k to $160k (+38%), an average of +8.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 72% 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, Lightstreet Community Fire Company sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile, and in the 46th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Florida Hazardous Materials Symposium ($160k), Unicoi Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated ($160k) and Tivoli Fire Co Inc ($160k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 65% of the total. It paid $1,077 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $389k, net assets of $964k.