Bozrah Volunteer Fire Company Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 141944486
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Bozrah, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8608879474
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fire Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $556,089
- Expenses
- $598,486
- Assets
- $1,333,693
- Liabilities
- $21,476
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LINDSEY LAFLASH (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MIKE GORDON (ASST TREASUR): $2,780 total reported compensation
- SANDY NORDGREN (AMBULANCE BI): $2,710 total reported compensation
- WANDA DURCAN (TREASURER): $2,190 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide emergency services for the town of bozrah and surrounding area.
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide emergency services to the town of bozrah and surrounding area.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 95.9%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.6%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.23; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 61 of 61 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $574K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $3K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.