Bristol Fire Co

Analysis

Bristol Fire Co is a registered charity in United States, based in Bristol, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1992, 34 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, Bristol Fire Co reported income of $111k and spending of $165k, spending 148% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $169k to $111k (-34%), an average of -10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Bristol Fire Co sits at the 39th percentile: it is larger than about 39% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile, and in the 37th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mended Network ($111k), Women of Visions Inc ($111k) and Friends of the Plano Public Library ($111k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 68% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $206k, net assets of $1.2m.