Adams Township Volunteer Fire Company No 2
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251607480
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Saint Michael, PA, USA
- Phone
- 8144954111
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Search and Rescue Squads
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $222,512
- Expenses
- $207,041
- Assets
- $806,905
- Liabilities
- $133,120
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Justin McKnight (Vice President, Captain)
- Kirk Moss (President)
People named in this filing
- Gary Kundrod (Trustee)
- William Cononie (Trustee)
- Douglas Reighard (Trustee)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the Adams Township Volunteer Fire Company, No. 2 is to provide the best possible fire protection, rescue services and fire prevention training to the residents of Adams and Croyle Townships in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. Included in the coverage area is the Forest Hills School District in Sidman and the Johnstown Flood National Memorial site. In addition, the Fire Company also provides mutual aid assistance to neighboring fire companies. The Fire Company operates strictly on a voluntary basis. During 2025, firemen responded to 239 alarms, while responding to 221 alarms in 2024 and 213 alarms in 2023.
What it reported doing in 2025
The number of alarms remains fairly constant each year as the Fire Company responded to 239 alarms in 2025, 221 alarms in 2024, 213 alarms in 2023, 212 alarms in 2022, 217 alarms in 2021, and 211 alarms in 2020. In addition, several fire prevention programs and public service events are held in the community each year. All members of the Fire Company volunteer their time, talent and efforts to: respond to alarms; attend training sessions; attend meetings; maintain the firefighting equipment, emergency vehicles, fire company building and grounds; assist with various fundraising events to financially support the operations of the organization.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.9%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 64.1%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.9; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.9% of revenue deployed · 64.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 25 of 25 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $133K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 20 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.