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BROOKSIDE FIREMANS WELFARE ASSOC

BROOKSIDE FIREMANS WELFARE ASSOC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $26 to it, the largest being WABTEC FOUNDATION ($26). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$33k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$26
Net assets
$57k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Brookside Firemans Welfare Assoc does

Mission

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide volunteer firefighters and emergency medical service technicians of the brookside volunteer fire company, harborcreek township, erie county, pa, with protection from misfortune suffered as a result of its participation in the fire and rescue service.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To provide volunteer firefighters and emergency medical technicians of the brookside volunteer fire company, harborcreek township, erie county, pa, with equipment, insurance, and training.

    $18,651 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $18,651.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($30k) Expenses 100 ($24k) Net assets 100 ($75k)2018 Revenue 92 ($28k) Expenses 232 ($56k) Net assets 63 ($47k)2019 Revenue 113 ($34k) Expenses 93 ($23k) Net assets 78 ($59k)2020 Revenue 101 ($31k) Expenses 191 ($46k) Net assets 57 ($43k)2021 Revenue 90 ($27k) Expenses 165 ($40k) Net assets 41 ($31k)2022 Revenue 113 ($34k) Expenses 126 ($30k) Net assets 46 ($35k)2023 Revenue 106 ($32k) Expenses 93 ($22k) Net assets 59 ($44k)2024 Revenue 108 ($33k) Expenses 82 ($20k) Net assets 76 ($57k)
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Revenue (108)Expenses (82)Net assets (76)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $75k to $47k (−37%).

$75k
$47k
$59k
$43k
$31k
$35k
$44k
$57k
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Total assets

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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2018
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2020
2021
2022
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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of BROOKSIDE FIREMANS WELFARE ASSOC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,797 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’17
−$28k
’18
$12k
’19
−$16k
’20
−$13k
’21
$4k
’22
$10k
’23
$13k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of BROOKSIDE FIREMANS WELFARE ASSOC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of BROOKSIDE FIREMANS WELFARE ASSOC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BROOKSIDE FIREMANS WELFARE ASSOC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,076 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin39% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,076 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds BROOKSIDE FIREMANS WELFARE ASSOC?
BROOKSIDE FIREMANS WELFARE ASSOC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $26 to it, the largest being WABTEC FOUNDATION ($26). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BROOKSIDE FIREMANS WELFARE ASSOC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $26 in grants to BROOKSIDE FIREMANS WELFARE ASSOC.
Who is the largest funder of BROOKSIDE FIREMANS WELFARE ASSOC?
WABTEC FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $26 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BROOKSIDE FIREMANS WELFARE ASSOC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing