Bethel Park Volunteer Fire Company

Analysis

Bethel Park Volunteer Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Bethel Park, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 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, Bethel Park Volunteer Fire Company reported income of $422k and spending of $252k, leaving 40% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $251k to $422k (+68%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 154%. Over the whole period it spent 79% 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, Bethel Park Volunteer Fire Company sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Orchard Beach Volunteer Fire Department Inc Orchard Beach ($422k), Bentonville Volunteer Fire Dept Inc ($423k) and Perseverance Volunteer Fire Co ($422k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 72% and program service revenue 0.0% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.0m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $3.0m.