West Grove Fire Company

Analysis

West Grove Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in West Grove, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, West Grove Fire Company reported income of $3.4m and spending of $2.7m, leaving 21% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.1m to $3.4m (+64%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 81% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, West Grove Fire Company sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Behavioral Health Initiatives Inc ($3.4m), Doug Flutie Jr Foundation for Autism Inc ($3.4m) and Reproductive Health Care Center ($3.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 67% and program service revenue 31% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.2m. It paid $16k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $8.3m against liabilities of $469k, net assets of $7.9m. It reported 55 employees.