Chester Heights Fire Company No 1

Analysis

Chester Heights Fire Company No 1 is a registered charity in United States, based in Chester HTS, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2000, 26 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, Chester Heights Fire Company No 1 reported income of $239k and spending of $218k, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $395k to $239k (-40%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 69% 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, Chester Heights Fire Company No 1 sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile, and in the 55th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Raritan Township Fire Company ($239k), Roy B Pettengill Ambulance Association Inc ($239k) and Pamplico Rescue and Ambulance Service ($239k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% and program service revenue 2.0% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $388k, net assets of $1.2m.