Bemus Point Volunteer Fire Co Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 166053156
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Bemus Point, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7163866011
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fire Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $109,425
- Expenses
- $71,410
- Assets
- $220,425
- Liabilities
- $17,021
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Theodore Farnham (President)
- Charles Shick (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Theodore Farnham (President)
- Charles Shick (Vice President)
- Randy Apperson (Chief Engineer)
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
Provide fire, ambulance and rescue services to the Bemus Point Fire District
What it reported doing in 2025
Recruiting and retaining members of the Bemus Point Volunteer Fire Department, provide ambulance services including all supplies for the department, purchase equipment and supplies directly related to the provision of fire procection services, represented the community in parades, funerals and recognition and promoted the well being and fellowship of the members of the fire departmenet, and promoted fire and life safety education for the community
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 and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.6%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 82.2%; rating input score 82
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 34.7%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.09; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.9% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.6% of revenue deployed · 82.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $59K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.