Alpine Emergency Services Board Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
931503837
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Alpine, TX, USA
Phone
4325382106
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fire Prevention

Reported finances

Revenue
$270,514
Expenses
$116,008
Assets
$173,979
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

People named in this filing

  • RUSSELL MOORE (CHAIRMAN)
  • AARON RODRIGUEZ (VIE-CHAIR)
  • CARLA SPENCER (SECRETARY)

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

To engage in the activities of organizing, operating, governing, and maintaining a fire department to be known as the alpine volunteer fire department (the fire department) for the purpose of preserving life and protecting property from or during fire or other emergencies, including fire protection and suppression, fire prevention, fire education, and rescue to the citizens of brewster county, Texas, and to consider, manage and/or operate other entities as agreed upon to support the purposes listed above.

What it reported doing in 2025

The aesb continued to refine processes and procedures that maintain fiscal responsibility, transparency, inventory procedures, and a well-trained operational command and control. All fire fighting vehicles and equipment are now in a fully functional, scheduled preventative maintenance regimen and fully available for emergency response. New firefighting vehicles have been acquired and are being fitted for specific use. All volunteer firefighters are on a training schedule with expectations to reach higher levels of certification based on the programs governed by accredited entities. All volunteer firefighters continued to receive higher level certified training in all emergency operations apparatus and are scheduled to enroll in continuing education in all facets of emergency response. In refining and accomplishing all of the above, the aesb continues to bring credibility, accountability and professionalism to a volunteer fire department that serves a community of 6,000 residents that also includes a state university and a high degree of tourism.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 77% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 54
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 76
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 40.6%; rating input score 41
  • Program expense ratio: 94.6%; rating input score 95
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: 57.1%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.5; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 84.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 159.7% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 40.6% of revenue deployed · 94.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $110K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 41/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.