Nottingham Volunteer Fire Company

Analysis

Nottingham Volunteer Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Bensalem, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1986, 40 years ago. 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, Nottingham Volunteer Fire Company reported income of $435k and spending of $387k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $248k to $435k (+76%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 92%. Over the whole period it spent 65% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Nottingham Volunteer Fire Company sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Olympia Symphony Orchestra ($435k), Fort Stockton Historical Society ($435k) and Transportation Solutions Foundation ($434k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 89% and program service revenue 1.2% of the total. It paid $4,682 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $2.9m against liabilities of $714k, net assets of $2.2m.