Ogontz Fire Company

Analysis

Ogontz Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Elkins Park, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1996, 30 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, Ogontz Fire Company reported income of $110k and spending of $279k, spending 254% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $277k to $110k (-60%), an average of -21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 88% 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, Ogontz Fire Company sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 40% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 39th percentile, and in the 37th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Homeland Security Mobile Trauma Unit Inc ($110k), Lewisville Community Volunteer Fire Department ($110k) and West Hamilton Beach Volunteers Inc ($110k).

At year end it held assets of $3.1m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $3.1m.