Cal Fire Local 2881
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 952535393
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9166098700
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,850,662
- Expenses
- $6,991,566
- Assets
- $29,114,311
- Liabilities
- $4,560,726
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TIM EDWARDS (President)
- PETE MUNOA (Vice President)
- CLIFF ALLEN (PAST PRESIDENT)
- JOSHUA SMITH (Vice President)
- PATRICK GRIFFIN (Vice President)
- JOHN GADDIE (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- PAUL VAN GERWEN (Treasurer): $58,656 total reported compensation
- TIM EDWARDS (President): $58,656 total reported compensation
- PETER BOCTOR (Director): $58,656 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Support beneficial legislation, represent cal fire employees, negatiate with the state of California
What it reported doing in 2025
Foster acquaintance, cooperation, efficeiency and harmony among cal fire emplyees, support beneficial legislatyion and represent cal fire empoyees in negotiations with the state of California
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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 most voting board members are independent. 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: 90
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 35.6%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.16; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.3%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $59K · 17 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed
- Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 17 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.