Feasterville Fire Company

Analysis

Feasterville Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Feasterville, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 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 (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, Feasterville Fire Company reported income of $553k and spending of $313k, leaving 43% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $238k to $553k (+133%), an average of +24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 91% 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, Feasterville Fire Company sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 70th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friendship Fire and Hose Company No 1 of Elizabethtown Pennsylvania ($553k), Volunteer Fire Company Number One of Laurel Maryland Inc ($553k) and York Fire Department Inc ($553k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 47% of the total. It paid $2,240 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $2.3m against liabilities of $334k, net assets of $1.9m.