Bainbridge Fire Company

Analysis

Bainbridge Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Bainbridge, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1994, 32 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, Bainbridge Fire Company reported income of $158k and spending of $188k, spending 119% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $356k to $158k (-56%), an average of -18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 51%. Over the whole period it spent 90% 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, Bainbridge Fire Company sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile, and in the 46th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bradford Volunteer Fire Company Inc ($158k), Belleville Volunteer Firefighters Inc ($158k) and Friendship Hose Co 1 ($158k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 81% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $365k, net assets of $975k.