American Pyrotechnics Safety and Education Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471945356
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Southport, NC, USA
- Phone
- 3019078181
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Transportation Systems
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $121,090
- Expenses
- $85,554
- Assets
- $132,968
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRANDON CORN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- STACY BLAKE (DIRECTOR)
- PAUL SMITH (DIRECTOR)
- JOHN STEINBERG (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization was founded to promote education and reduce fireworks- related injuries through instruction of the public regarding the science of fireworks and fireworks safety.
What it reported doing in 2025
The foundation designs an education program regarding fireworks science and safety to be used by local schools and communities and focus on creating fireworks safety and education programs for youth and the general public. The goal of the education initiative "celebrate safely" is to instill in young people an understanding of how consumer fireworks should be used appropriately, discourage the misuse of fireworks, and decrease the number of fireworks-related injuries in the u.s.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 38.1%; rating input score 38
- Program expense ratio: 54%; rating input score 54
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 29.3%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.55; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 38.1% of revenue deployed · 54% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $46K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 38/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.