West End Fire Co No 2

Analysis

West End Fire Co No 2 is a registered charity in United States, based in Quakertown, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1991, 35 years ago. 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, West End Fire Co No 2 reported income of $219k and spending of $122k, leaving 44% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $225k to $219k (-2.7%), an average of -0.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 66% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, West End Fire Co No 2 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 56th percentile, and in the 53rd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kentuckians for Community Valves Inc ($219k), Oklahoma Library Association ($219k) and PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc ($219k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 70% of the total. It paid $11k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $2.1m against liabilities of $463k, net assets of $1.6m.