Alpha Fire Company

Analysis

Alpha Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in State College, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2011, 15 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, Alpha Fire Company reported income of $347k and spending of $275k, leaving 21% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $270k to $347k (+28%), an average of +6.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 125%. Over the whole period it spent 75% 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, Alpha Fire Company sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile, and in the 62nd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include White Level Rural Fire Department ($347k), Coxsackie Hose Company No 3 of Coxsackie Ny ($347k) and Collingswood Fire Company No 1 ($346k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 88% and program service revenue 0.3% of the total. At year end it held assets of $797k against liabilities of $181, net assets of $796k.