Camphill Fire Company No 1

Analysis

Camphill Fire Company No 1 is a registered charity in United States, based in Camp Hill, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1997, 29 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, Camphill Fire Company No 1 reported income of $210k and spending of $290k, spending 138% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $622k to $210k (-66%), an average of -24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 52%. Over the whole period it spent 126% 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, Camphill Fire Company No 1 sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile, and in the 52nd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ocooch Mountain Rescue ($209k), Georgia Conference Incorporated ($210k) and Survivors Empowered Inc ($209k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 89% and program service revenue 2.0% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $246k, net assets of $1.0m.

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.