Lower Mt Bethel Twsp-Sandts Eddy Fire Co

Analysis

Lower Mt Bethel Twsp-Sandts Eddy Fire Co is a registered charity in United States, based in Martins Creek, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2006, 20 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 (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, Lower Mt Bethel Twsp-Sandts Eddy Fire Co reported income of $167k and spending of $222k, spending 133% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $192k to $167k (-13%), an average of -3.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 194%. Over the whole period it spent 72% 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, Lower Mt Bethel Twsp-Sandts Eddy Fire Co sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile, and in the 47th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Overwatch Foundation ($167k), Duii Multi-Disciplinary Training Task Force ($167k) and Gale Hose Co No 1 Inc ($167k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 77% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.9m against liabilities of $698k, net assets of $1.2m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.