Tri-Clover Fire Company

Analysis

Tri-Clover Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Orefield, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 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, Tri-Clover Fire Company reported income of $261k and spending of $187k, leaving 28% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $197k to $261k (+32%), an average of +7.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 51%. Over the whole period it spent 64% 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, Tri-Clover Fire Company sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile, and in the 57th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sister Lakes Fire Department ($261k), Park Rapids Firemens Relief Association ($261k) and Wyoming-Montana Safety Council ($261k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 47% and program service revenue 44% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $17k. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $245k, net assets of $1.5m.