Big Beaver Borough Volunteer Fire Company

Analysis

Big Beaver Borough Volunteer Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Darlington, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 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, Big Beaver Borough Volunteer Fire Company reported income of $151k and spending of $160k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $168k to $151k (-10%), an average of -2.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 89% 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, Big Beaver Borough Volunteer Fire Company sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 47th percentile, and in the 45th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rockaway Point Volunteer Ambulance and Rescue Corps Inc ($151k), West Leyden Fire Company Inc ($151k) and Whitelaw Volunteer Fire Department ($151k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. At year end it held assets of $658k against liabilities of $92k, net assets of $566k.