Avoca Hose Company Number 1

Analysis

Avoca Hose Company Number 1 is a registered charity in United States, based in Avoca, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2025. 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, Avoca Hose Company Number 1 reported income of $533k and spending of $577k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $128k to $533k (+315%), an average of +61% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 318%. Over the whole period it spent 100% 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, Avoca Hose Company Number 1 sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 69th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Stuarts Draft Rescue Squad Inc ($532k), Northstar Search and Rescue ($533k) and Sharpsburg Fire Prevention Association Inc ($531k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $18k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $18k.