Blue Knob Volunteer Fire Company Inc

Analysis

Blue Knob Volunteer Fire Company Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Portage, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2001, 25 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, Blue Knob Volunteer Fire Company Inc reported income of $130k and spending of $158k, spending 121% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $93k to $130k (+40%), an average of +8.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 78%. Over the whole period it spent 107% 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, Blue Knob Volunteer Fire Company Inc sits at the 46th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 44th percentile, and in the 41st percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Resilient Power Puerto Rico Inc ($130k), Hilton Fire Department Inc ($130k) and Collinsville Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated ($130k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 49% and program service revenue 9.0% of the total. At year end it held assets of $483k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $483k.