Alameda County Firefighters Local55
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 946130861
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Oakland, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5106183472
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fire Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $961,704
- Expenses
- $1,033,266
- Assets
- $1,161,583
- Liabilities
- $2,879
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SEAN BURROWS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SEAN BURROWS (PRESIDENT): $57,041 total reported compensation
- EDDIE DUTCH-STORY (VICE PRESIDE): $28,520 total reported compensation
- DAVE HUANG (ADV BOARD CH): $28,520 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide competitive salaries, benefits and safe working conditions for our members through negotiations and optional insurances provided by the association.
What it reported doing in 2024
Benefits communication network allows members to speak with a financial planner for personal financial planning; personal exposure reporting program through the California professional firefighters helps members with illnesses qualify for workers compensation coverage, and public relations for retirement and other social events to benefit members; charitable donations to various organizations chosen by the board.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 90% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Member-benefit provider. The nonprofit used 79% of its reported program spending for member benefits.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 51
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 94.9%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 52.8%; rating input score 53; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.4%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.12; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 20 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $57K · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.