Dc Firefighters Burn Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
202220579
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
2025283898
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$488,251
Expenses
$471,128
Assets
$330,222
Liabilities
$61,796

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JASON WOODS (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JASON WOODS (PRESIDENT): $21,625 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to prevent burns & improve quality of life of burn survivors through programs, education, and research. We support firefighters who have been hospitalized by burn injuries in performance of their duties as well as their families, which includes transportation, lodging, and meals for family members that have loved ones in the burn center. We help fund the burn center at the Washington hospital center, the only adult burn treatment center in the Washington, dc area. We send and accompany young burn survivors from the dc area every summer to the children's burn camp in Connecticut. We provide burn education and prevention programs for citizens and firefighters, which includes a recent program specific to the senior population within the district. We share in the rehabilitation of recovery of burn survivors and their families through a wide variety of survivor support programs.

What it reported doing in 2024

In 2024, the dc firefighters burn foundation provided $111,000 to support the pediatric burn care program at children's national hospital. This funding helped cover one-fourth of the burn occupational therapist's salary, purchase essential equipment for the child life team and burn rehabilitation gym, and support staff education through attendance at major burn care conferences, including the american burn association, north east regional burn, and international society of burn injuries conferences. Hosted the bert w. Martin burn survivors retreat in crested butte, Colorado, bringing together 50 burn care professionals, survivors, and caregivers for a four-day program focused on recovery and resilience. The retreat emphasized the psychosocial, mindfulness, and physical aspects of healing, providing participants with tools and community support to navigate life after burn injuries. This event was made possible through partnerships with the parkland burn center (dallas, tx), the university of Colorado burn center (denver, co), the burn center at medstar Washington hospital center, and the adaptive sports center. Continued to support our annual children's burn camp program for young burn survivors ages 8 to 18. Provided an opportunity for adult burn survivors from the national capital region to participate in programming at the adaptive sports center in crested butte, co. Continued to fund the image enhancement program and burn survivor peer support program for local burn survivors. Our family services fund assisted the families of injured firefighters receiving burn or trauma care for line-of-duty injuries. Hosted the annual firefighters burn survivors retreat at the adaptive sports center in crested butte, co.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 74% for direct work, and 26% for grants.

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: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 89%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 92.1%; rating input score 92
  • Fundraising efficiency: $73.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 89.7%; rating input score 90; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.5%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.6%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 89% of revenue deployed · 92.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $434K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $22K · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
  • 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: 5 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.