Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CITIZENS FIRE COMPANY NO 1
CITIZENS FIRE COMPANY NO 1 (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,223 to it, the largest being SHERMANS DALE COMMUNITY FIRE CO ($197,223). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $945k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $205k
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Citizens Fire Company No 1 does
Mission
Protection of the local community from fire and other emergency situations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During the year ended december 31, 2024, citizen's fire company no. 1 served the local community by providing fire and other emergency services. During 2024, the company responded to 736 emergency calls.
$652,895 spent$704,821 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $652,895.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.8M to $4.0M (+41%).
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 3% · 2019 5% · 2020 8% · 2021 3% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of CITIZENS FIRE COMPANY NO 1’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $197k → $8k.
From the IRS filings of CITIZENS FIRE COMPANY NO 1’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
CITIZENS FIRE COMPANY NO 1 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CITIZENS FIRE COMPANY NO 1.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of CITIZENS FIRE COMPANY NO 1'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
CITIZENS FIRE COMPANY NO 1 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 CITIZENS FIRE COMPANY NO 1
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Citizens Fire Company No 1 Volunteer Firefighters Relief Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITIZENS FIRE COMPANY NO 1: 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 CITIZENS FIRE COMPANY NO 1?
- CITIZENS FIRE COMPANY NO 1 (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,223 to it, the largest being SHERMANS DALE COMMUNITY FIRE CO ($197,223). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CITIZENS FIRE COMPANY NO 1 have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $205,223 in grants to CITIZENS FIRE COMPANY NO 1.
- Who is the largest funder of CITIZENS FIRE COMPANY NO 1?
- SHERMANS DALE COMMUNITY FIRE CO is the largest funder on record, with $197,223 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITIZENS FIRE COMPANY NO 1 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 2 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