Bushkill Fire Company

Analysis

Bushkill Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Bushkill, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2025. 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, Bushkill Fire Company reported income of $654k and spending of $666k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $433k to $654k (+51%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 93% 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, Bushkill Fire Company sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Culpeper County Volunteer Fire Dept Inc ($653k), New Hope Fire Department Inc ($654k) and Briceland Volunteer Fire Department ($653k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 58% and program service revenue 0.0% of the total. At year end it held assets of $5.1m against liabilities of $1.4m, net assets of $3.7m.

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.