Beech Creek - Blanchard Volunteer Fire Company

Analysis

Beech Creek - Blanchard Volunteer Fire Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Beech Creek, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2012, 14 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, Beech Creek - Blanchard Volunteer Fire Company reported income of $270k and spending of $160k, leaving 41% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $201k to $270k (+34%), an average of +7.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 62% 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, Beech Creek - Blanchard Volunteer Fire Company sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile, and in the 58th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Gray Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($269k), West Monroe Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($270k) and Florida Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($269k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 32% and program service revenue 53% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $201k, net assets of $1.5m.