Po-Mar-Lin Fire Co

Analysis

Po-Mar-Lin Fire Co is a registered charity in United States, based in Unionville, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Po-Mar-Lin Fire Co reported income of $396k and spending of $619k, spending 156% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $295k to $396k (+34%), an average of +7.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 137% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Po-Mar-Lin Fire Co sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile, and in the 64th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Span Inc ($396k), Kee Cha-E-Nar Corporation ($396k) and Spalding County Collaborative Authority for Family & Children ($396k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% and program service revenue 0.8% of the total. It paid $1,126 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $4.4m against liabilities of $633k, net assets of $3.8m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.