Vigilant Hose Company No 1 of Shippensburg Pennsylvania

Analysis

Vigilant Hose Company No 1 of Shippensburg Pennsylvania is a registered charity in United States, based in Shippensburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1991, 35 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, Vigilant Hose Company No 1 of Shippensburg Pennsylvania reported income of $669k and spending of $506k, leaving 24% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $688k to $669k (-2.8%), an average of -0.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 90%. Over the whole period it spent 66% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Vigilant Hose Company No 1 of Shippensburg Pennsylvania sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Watershed History Collective Inc ($669k), United Child Care Center of Lake Geneva Ltd ($669k) and Grafton Blueline Club Inc ($668k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 47% and program service revenue 0.0% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $76k. It paid $290 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $10.9m against liabilities of $2.5m, net assets of $8.3m.