Tylersport Volunteer Fire Company

Analysis

Tylersport Volunteer Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Tylersport, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1995, 31 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, Tylersport Volunteer Fire Company reported income of $375k and spending of $282k, leaving 25% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $282k to $375k (+33%), an average of +7.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 85%. Over the whole period it spent 73% 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, Tylersport Volunteer Fire Company sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% 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 Five Mile Point Fire Company Inc ($375k), Pleasant Grove Volunteer Fire & Ems Department ($376k) and Allegany Rescue and Ems Inc ($374k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 50% and program service revenue 3.8% of the total. It paid $2,874 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $2.7m against liabilities of $78k, net assets of $2.6m.