Upper Allen Township Fire Department

Analysis

Upper Allen Township Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Mechanicsburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1994, 32 years ago. 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, Upper Allen Township Fire Department reported income of $273k and spending of $407k, spending 149% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $127k to $273k (+115%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 171%. Over the whole period it spent 160% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Upper Allen Township Fire Department sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile, and in the 58th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc ($273k), Bristol Hospice Foundation of California ($273k) and Smith Island United Inc ($273k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 91% and program service revenue 0.6% of the total. At year end it held assets of $996k against liabilities of $20k, net assets of $975k.

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.