Bakersfield Firefighters Burn Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770376315
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Bakersfield, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7608285945
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $146,819
- Expenses
- $62,259
- Assets
- $220,446
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRIS BOWLES (President)
- THOMAS OSBORNE (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- RANDY FRICKSON (Treasurer)
- CHRIS BOWLES (President)
- THOMAS OSBORNE (Vice President)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The bakersfield firefighters burn foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to help assist burn survivors through burn care research, burn prevention education and burn survivor support services
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization is dedicated to assist and support burn survivors through direct support and burn care research and to also promote burn prevention education.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40%; rating input score 40
- Program expense ratio: 94.3%; rating input score 94
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 57.6%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.54; rating input score 92; 92nd 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: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 40% of revenue deployed · 94.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $59K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 40/100.