Friendship Fire and Hose Company No 1 of Elizabethtown Pennsylvania

Analysis

Friendship Fire and Hose Company No 1 of Elizabethtown Pennsylvania is a registered charity in United States, based in Elizabethtown, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2014, 12 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 June 2024, Friendship Fire and Hose Company No 1 of Elizabethtown Pennsylvania reported income of $553k and spending of $367k, leaving 34% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income grew from $462k to $553k (+20%), an average of +4.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 17%. 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, Friendship Fire and Hose Company No 1 of Elizabethtown Pennsylvania 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 York Fire Department Inc ($553k), Feasterville Fire Company ($553k) and Yankee Hill Fire Safe Council ($552k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 87% and program service revenue 0.8% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $7,200 (2.0% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $3.2m against liabilities of $116k, net assets of $3.1m.