Upper Makefield Fire Company

Analysis

Upper Makefield Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in WSHNGTN Xing, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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 2023, Upper Makefield Fire Company reported income of $410k and spending of $438k, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $330k to $410k (+24%), an average of +5.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 117% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Upper Makefield Fire Company sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 65th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The United Way of Van Wert County Ohio Incorportaed ($410k), Friends of Highlands Hammock State Park Inc ($410k) and Oakland Rotary Endowment ($409k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% and program service revenue 1.8% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $65k. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $207k, net assets of $1.4m.