Bareville Fire Company No 1

Analysis

Bareville Fire Company No 1 is a registered charity in United States, based in Leola, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Bareville Fire Company No 1 reported income of $326k and spending of $252k, leaving 23% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $254k to $326k (+28%), an average of +6.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 101% 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, Bareville Fire Company No 1 sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile, and in the 61st percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Richfield Misenheimer Fire Department Incorporated ($325k), Fruitdale Volunteer Fire Co Incorp ($326k) and Williamstown Area Emergency Medical Services Inc ($325k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 50% and program service revenue 11% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $409k, net assets of $1.4m.