Mountain Top Fire Company

Analysis

Mountain Top Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Sandy Ridge, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2007, 19 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, Mountain Top Fire Company reported income of $397k and spending of $356k, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $284k to $397k (+40%), an average of +8.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 37%. 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, Mountain Top Fire Company sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile, and in the 65th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Thomaston Volunteer Ambulance Corps Inc ($396k), Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council ($397k) and Ridgeley Volunteer Fire Co ($396k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 16% and program service revenue 69% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $11k (3.1% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $125k. At year end it held assets of $802k against liabilities of $45k, net assets of $757k. It reported 20 employees.