Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PROTECTION ENGINE COMPANY NO 3
PROTECTION ENGINE COMPANY NO 3 (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,683 to it, the largest being ROBERT E AND LEILA STEGNER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($73,582). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $109k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $131k
- Net assets
- $524k
What Protection Engine Company No 3 does
Mission
To protect life, property, and the environment from fires, natural disasters, and other emergencies for those living, working, or traveling within the borough of honesdale and its surrounding areas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The protection of life, property, and the environment from fires, natural disasters, and other emergencies for those living, working, or traveling within the borough of honesdale and its surrounding areas.
$42,778 spent82% of program spendingThe protection of life, property, and the environment from fires, natural disasters, and other emergencies for those living, working, or traveling within the borough of honesdale and its surrounding areas.
$9,121 spent18% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $51,899.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $534k to $479k (−10%).
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 32% · 2019 58% · 2020 81% · 2021 86% · 2022 82% · 2023 85% · 2024 75% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $500 → $43k.
From the IRS filings of PROTECTION ENGINE COMPANY NO 3’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
PROTECTION ENGINE COMPANY NO 3 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 96% · 2023 55% — 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.
Where its funders are
63% of PROTECTION ENGINE COMPANY NO 3'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.
Organizations like PROTECTION ENGINE COMPANY NO 3
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROTECTION ENGINE COMPANY NO 3: 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 PROTECTION ENGINE COMPANY NO 3?
- PROTECTION ENGINE COMPANY NO 3 (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,683 to it, the largest being ROBERT E AND LEILA STEGNER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($73,582). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROTECTION ENGINE COMPANY NO 3 have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $130,683 in grants to PROTECTION ENGINE COMPANY NO 3, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROTECTION ENGINE COMPANY NO 3?
- ROBERT E AND LEILA STEGNER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $73,582 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROTECTION ENGINE COMPANY NO 3 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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