Patton Fire Company No 1

Analysis

Patton Fire Company No 1 is a registered charity in United States, based in Patton, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2025. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. 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, Patton Fire Company No 1 reported income of $261k and spending of $220k, spending 84% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $321k to $261k (-19%), an average of -5.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 15%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Patton Fire Company No 1 sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile, and in the 57th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mora Creative Council ($261k), Startupaz Foundation ($261k) and Gumboro Community Association Inc ($261k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $637k against liabilities of $38k, net assets of $599k.