Colesville Volunteer Fire Department of the Township of Wantage
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752998453
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Wantage, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9738755788
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fire Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $105,036
- Expenses
- $94,699
- Assets
- $204,094
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lawrence E Bono Jr (President)
- James Courtright Sr (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Nicole Rubin (Treasurer)
- Lawrence E Bono Jr (President)
- Ellen Smith (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
To provide voluntary fire protection and suppression to the citizens and visitors of the Township of Wantage, Sussex County, New Jersey, provide mutual assistance to the neighboring towns, promote fire prevention programs, provide support to other not-for-profit organizations, presentation of programs not financially supported through public funding, social and fraternal events, and activities not financially supported through public funding, and supplemental funding for members of the fire department, fire company, or other associated fire service individual who becomes indigent or otherwise incapable of providing food or shelter for themselves and/or their family members.
What it reported doing in 2024
Fire Protection
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 program spending has grown recently. 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: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 41.7%; rating input score 42
- Program expense ratio: 46.2%; rating input score 46
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.8%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.16; rating input score 82; 82nd 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: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.4% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 41.7% of revenue deployed · 46.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $44K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2012 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 42/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.