Cicero Fire Fighters Local 717
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363746300
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Cicero, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7086569717
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Fire Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $148,697
- Expenses
- $155,759
- Assets
- $71,546
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVE GRADY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CHRIS FOLTZ (TREASURER)
- DAVE GRADY (PRESIDENT)
- NICK ROCHKUS (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide support for first responders, their families and members of the community; to promote the interest and education of fire fighters in current health and safety concerns; to update fire fighters with information on the latest techniques and training; to assist the iaff in organizing all paid professional conferences; to place the association on a higher plain of efficiency to promote a feeling of confidence and harmony with the general public and public officials.
What it reported doing in 2025
To provide support for first responders, their families and members of the community
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% 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: 23
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.7%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.7%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 20th 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 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.