Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BRYN MAWR FIRE COMPANY
BRYN MAWR FIRE COMPANY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,050 to it, the largest being THE BENJAMIN SHEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,300). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $834k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Bryn Mawr Fire Company does
Mission
Volunteer fire company providing emergency fire & rescue services to sections of lower merion and radnor townships
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Volunteer fire company providing emergency fire & rescue services to sections of lower merion and radnor townships total 911/emergency calls 2024 779 total hours of service 271 average number of volunteers responding per call 7 total hours of volunteer responding 1058 total training/drill hours 200 total hours of volunteers training/drills 983
$654,957 spent$834,440 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $654,957.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $4.5M to $3.8M (−16%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 83% · 2018 120% · 2019 86% · 2020 65% · 2021 69% · 2022 81% · 2023 78% · 2024 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of BRYN MAWR FIRE COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $100 → $400.
From the IRS filings of BRYN MAWR FIRE COMPANY’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.
How concentrated its funding is
BRYN MAWR FIRE COMPANY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 20% · 2019 100% · 2020 40% · 2021 52% · 2022 50% · 2023 63% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of BRYN MAWR FIRE COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
94% of BRYN MAWR FIRE COMPANY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
BRYN MAWR FIRE COMPANY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BRYN MAWR FIRE COMPANY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Lower Merion Township Firemen's Relief Assoc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRYN MAWR FIRE COMPANY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRYN MAWR FIRE COMPANY?
- BRYN MAWR FIRE COMPANY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,050 to it, the largest being THE BENJAMIN SHEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,300). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRYN MAWR FIRE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $16,050 in grants to BRYN MAWR FIRE COMPANY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRYN MAWR FIRE COMPANY?
- THE BENJAMIN SHEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRYN MAWR FIRE COMPANY 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 12 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