Glenn Lebanon Fire Company

Analysis

Glenn Lebanon Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Lebanon, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1998, 28 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Glenn Lebanon Fire Company reported income of $211k and spending of $48k, leaving 77% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $114k to $211k (+86%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 72%. Over the whole period it spent 27% 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, Glenn Lebanon Fire Company sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile, and in the 53rd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Huntington Fire Department ($211k), North East Ohio Pyrotechnics Group ($211k) and Fisherville Volunteer Fire Company No 1 ($211k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 48% and program service revenue 1.2% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.4m against liabilities of $237k, net assets of $2.2m.