Trappe Fire Company Number 1

Analysis

Trappe Fire Company Number 1 is a registered charity in United States, based in Trappe, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2007, 19 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, Trappe Fire Company Number 1 reported income of $62k and spending of $207k, spending 334% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.2m to $62k (-97%), an average of -59% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 96%. Over the whole period it spent 102% 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, Trappe Fire Company Number 1 sits at the 23rd percentile: it is larger than about 23% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 24th percentile, and in the 23rd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Calumet Fire Department Auxiliary Inc ($62k), San Angelo Back the Badge ($62k) and Trough Creek Valley Volunteer Fire Company ($62k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 254% and program service revenue 10% of the total. It paid $4,655 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $468k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $468k.

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.