Blue Branch Volunteer Fire Department Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742763153
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Lexington, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5126193987
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Fire Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $123,311
- Expenses
- $124,499
- Assets
- $218,854
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEVE RUESS (PRESIDENT)
- DAVID BURTSCHELL (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- STEVE RUESS (PRESIDENT)
- CINDY HOSKINS (TREASURER)
- DAVID BURTSCHELL (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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide fire protection to the area in and around blue, tx and northwest lee county, tx.
What it reported doing in 2023
During the year the volunteer fire department responded to and extinguished residential and brush fires in and around blue, tx. The volunteer fire dept. Also assisted lexington, tanglewood and coupland volunteer fire departments in extinguishing major fires. Additionally, the blue branch vfd successfully implemented a firewise community plan for blue, tx and made blue the first certified firewise community in lee county, tx.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.76; rating input score 77; 77th 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 4 of 5 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2015 to 2023
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.