Columbia Borough Fire Department

Analysis

Columbia Borough Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbia, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2005, 21 years ago. 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, Columbia Borough Fire Department reported income of $916k and spending of $539k, leaving 41% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.3m to $916k (-31%), an average of -9.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 50%. Over the whole period it spent 64% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Columbia Borough Fire Department sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Arc of Snohomish County ($915k), Fuller E Callaway Professorial Chairs Trust for ($916k) and Day Care Center of New Canaan ($915k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 31% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $175k. At year end it held assets of $6.7m against liabilities of $912k, net assets of $5.8m. It reported 37 employees.