Rheems Fire Company Inc

Analysis

Rheems Fire Company Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Elizabethtown, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2009, 17 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, Rheems Fire Company Inc reported income of $631k and spending of $397k, leaving 37% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $343k to $631k (+84%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 306%. Over the whole period it spent 67% 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, Rheems Fire Company Inc sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Collinsburg Volunteer Fire Company of Rostraver Township Inc ($631k), Kuhl Hose Co ($632k) and Boyd-Holt County Enhanced 911 Dispatch Center ($631k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% and program service revenue 1.3% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.4m against liabilities of $536k, net assets of $2.9m.