Billings Firefighters Benevolent Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 884231655
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Billings, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4066714845
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $56,537
- Expenses
- $43,291
- Assets
- $92,719
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BEN JARES (PRESIDENT)
- DOUG KOFFLER (VICE-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ANDY EKBLAD (BOARD MEMBER)
- LEE FISCHER (BOARD MEMBER)
- SEAN BIGGINS (BOARD MEMBER)
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 organization raises funds in order to provide resources to families in the billings, mt community at a time they are in crisis.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization raises funds to help families displaced from their home due to a fire, and to help families with emergency medical costs. The organization also uses funds to help firefighters who get sick or injured.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 71% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
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: 23.4%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.14; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 75.8% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 67.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.