Paxtonia Fire Company

Analysis

Paxtonia Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Harrisburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2010, 16 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, Paxtonia Fire Company reported income of $312k and spending of $257k, spending 82% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $319k to $312k (-2.5%), an average of -0.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 86% 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, Paxtonia Fire Company sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 60th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Wall Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($311k), Short Gap Volunteer Fire Company ($312k) and Toms Brook Volunteer Fire Dept ($311k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 81% of the total. It paid $6,510 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $1,762, net assets of $1.1m.