Bethel Volunteer Emergency Services Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920116097
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Bethel, AK, USA
- Phone
- 9075432131
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Safety, Disaster Preparedness & Relief N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,495
- Expenses
- $8,583
- Assets
- $20,320
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bryan Kruse (Vice President)
- John Hastie (President)
People named in this filing
- Bryan Kruse (Vice President)
- John Hastie (President)
- Cameron Erickson (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To unite for public benefit those persons engaged in the practice of fire prevention, fire control and extinguishment , saving of property and giving emergency medical aid to the public. To promote public awareness for the fire and emergency medical services at all levels of government: local, state and national, so as to encourage high professional standards of conduct among the services provided to the public. To assist the city of Bethel in the procurement of emergency and medical equipment, this will benefit the public at large. Over the years we have made many monetary donations to the community for local school functions, playground equipment, sports programs, training and education for firefighters and EMT's and monetary donations to fire victims.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community Events: 4th of July Parade. Halloween Carnival. Up to 1500 citizens participated
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - 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: 40
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 33.1%; rating input score 33
- Program expense ratio: 52.1%; rating input score 52
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 36.4%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.37; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -54.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -42% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 33.1% of revenue deployed · 52.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 33/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.