The Pennsylvania Fire & Emergency Services Institute Inc

Analysis

The Pennsylvania Fire & Emergency Services Institute Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Mechanicsburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1992, 34 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 (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, The Pennsylvania Fire & Emergency Services Institute Inc reported income of $154k and spending of $171k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $188k to $154k (-18%), an average of -4.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 118% 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, The Pennsylvania Fire & Emergency Services Institute Inc sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile, and in the 45th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Oliver County Rural Fire Protection District ($154k), Baskett Community Fire Department Inc ($154k) and Green Mountain Falls and Chipita Park Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($154k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 85% and program service revenue 12% of the total. At year end it held assets of $187k against liabilities of $44, net assets of $187k.

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.