Sunbury Steam Fire Engine Co

Analysis

Sunbury Steam Fire Engine Co is a registered charity in United States, based in Sunbury, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1997, 29 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, Sunbury Steam Fire Engine Co reported income of $332k and spending of $254k, leaving 23% of income unspent that year. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $136k to $332k (+145%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 124%. Over the whole period it spent 81% 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, Sunbury Steam Fire Engine Co sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile, and in the 61st percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of the Plandome Fire Department Inc ($332k), Stroud Township Volunteer Fire Department ($332k) and Hacks Point Fire Company Inc ($331k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 2.3% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $54k. At year end it held assets of $667k against liabilities of $5,523, net assets of $662k. It reported 13 employees.