Bethlehem Firefighters Iaff Local 735
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 236297597
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Bethlehem, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6106912738
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $142,043
- Expenses
- $113,643
- Assets
- $110,607
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LOUIS JIMENEZ (PRESIDENT)
- CHRISTIAN PAULUS (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)
- THOMAS HART (A SHIFT VICE PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT IMBODEN (D SHIFT VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LOUIS JIMENEZ (PRESIDENT)
- BERNARD SMICHERKO (SECRETARY)
- KYLE DOLTON (TREASURER)
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 secure adequate remunerations for the betterment of conditions for a higher degree of efficienct. To improve the standards for moral, social, and economic condititions. Cultivation of good fellowship among its members.
What it reported doing in 2025
To secure adequate remunerations for the betterment of conditions for a higher degree of efficiency.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Transfer-based 990-EZ. The 990-EZ reports grants or member benefits, but it does not separate enough spending to show the nonprofit’s full delivery mix.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 21
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 33%; rating input score 33
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.97; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -15.3% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 33% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.