Central City Volunteer Firefighters Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 475320121
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2022–2024
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
Location: Central City, CO, USA
Phone: 7202882967
Rating: 68
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Fire Prevention

Reported finances

Revenue: $8,428
Expenses: $4,761
Assets: $29,829

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

JEREMY KAISER (President)

People named in this filing

SHIRLEE VOORHIES (Director)
DANNY BRANNING (Director)
LANORA BRANNING (Secretary)

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

Ccvff is a nonprofit organization which exists exclusively to raise funds to support the central city fire department and the efforts of volunteer firefighters. The support assists in building a strong, dedicated, accessible and capable fire department to protect life and property of the citizens, visitors and passers-through of the city of central.

What it reported doing in 2024

Operating model

Revenue model: Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model: Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 57
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 74
Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 44.1%; rating input score 44
Program expense ratio: 78.1%; rating input score 78

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: 43.5%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.27; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -91.5% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 38.3% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 44.1% of revenue deployed · 78.1% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
Schedules: 2 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.

Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.