Bucks County Rescue Squad

Analysis

Bucks County Rescue Squad is a registered charity in United States, based in Bristol, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1947, 79 years ago. 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, Bucks County Rescue Squad reported income of $2.0m and spending of $1.7m, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.4m to $2.0m (+40%), an average of +8.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Bucks County Rescue Squad 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 86th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pottawattamie Arts Culture & Entertainment ($2.0m), YWCA Boulder County ($2.0m) and Sheltered Workshop Insurance of Mo ($2.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 36% and program service revenue 62% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.1m. At year end it held assets of $1.9m against liabilities of $54k, net assets of $1.8m. It reported 26 employees.