Chester County Police and Fire Hero Fund

Analysis

Chester County Police and Fire Hero Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Downingtown, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, Chester County Police and Fire Hero Fund reported income of $54k and spending of $9,155, leaving 83% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $81k to $54k (-34%), an average of -9.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 192%. Over the whole period it spent 47% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Chester County Police and Fire Hero Fund sits at the 27th percentile: it is larger than about 27% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 21st percentile, and in the 19th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fairless Athletic Booster Club Inc ($54k), Overland Trail Elementary PTO Inc ($54k) and The Trinity United Church of Christ of Takoma Park Maryland Charitable ($54k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 43% of the total. At year end it held assets of $890k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $890k.