Lynnport Community Fire Company No 1

Analysis

Lynnport Community Fire Company No 1 is a registered charity in United States, based in New Tripoli, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Lynnport Community Fire Company No 1 reported income of $117k and spending of $132k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income fell from $231k to $117k (-49%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 68%. Over the whole period it spent 82% 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, Lynnport Community Fire Company No 1 sits at the 42nd percentile: it is larger than about 42% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 41st percentile, and in the 39th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Newland Volunteer Fire Department ($117k), Ridgeway Volunteer Rural Fire Association Inc ($117k) and Mora Fire Department Relief Association ($117k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 41% of the total. At year end it held assets of $585k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $585k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.