Porters Community Fire Company

Analysis

Porters Community Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Spring Grove, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2026. 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 October 2023, Porters Community Fire Company reported income of $147k and spending of $225k, spending 152% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2019 to October 2023, income fell from $157k to $147k (-5.9%), an average of -1.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2022, when income rose by 87%. Over the whole period it spent 102% 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, Porters Community 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 Jefferson County Fire Training Academy Inc ($147k), Vacaville City Firefighters Charity Fund Incorporated ($147k) and Keystone Fire Co No 1 ($147k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending October 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 115% of the total. At year end it held assets of $349k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $349k.