Lawn Fire Company

Analysis

Lawn Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Lawn, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 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, Lawn Fire Company reported income of $167k and spending of $152k, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $530k to $167k (-69%), an average of -25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 55%. Over the whole period it spent 77% 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, Lawn Fire Company sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile, and in the 47th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Henryville Volunteer Fire Dept ($166k), Carlisle Volunteer Firefightersassociation ($167k) and Buncombe Creek Volunteer Fire Department ($166k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 83% and program service revenue 6.3% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $475k, net assets of $1.1m.