Sipesville Volunteer Fire Company

Analysis

Sipesville Volunteer Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Sipesville, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2003, 23 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, Sipesville Volunteer Fire Company reported income of $310k and spending of $138k, leaving 56% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $139k to $310k (+124%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 192%. Over the whole period it spent 45% 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, Sipesville Volunteer Fire Company sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 60th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Livable Streets Transportation Alliance of Boston Inc ($310k), Round Hill Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated ($310k) and Brookfield Volunteer Fire Department Candlewood Company Inco ($310k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 46% and program service revenue 0.4% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.6m against liabilities of $112k, net assets of $2.5m.