Dixon Community Fire Department

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
850451772
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Dixon, NM, USA
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fire Prevention

Reported finances

Revenue
$67,822
Expenses
$53,528
Assets
$40,774

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Steven Jenison (President)
  • Wayne Archuleta (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Steven Jenison (President)
  • Mary Eloise Martinez (Secretary Treasurer)
  • Alexander Amend (Grant Administrator)

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

Dixon Community Fire Department supports the work of the unpaid volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Medical Technologists of the Dixon Volunteer Fire Department in Dixon NM. We promote community projects that increase preparedness for wildfires and other emergencies. We hold community-wide events that foster community solidarity and that serve as venues for fire prevention education and public health awareness.

What it reported doing in 2025

Community Outreach Projects include 1 Community-wide chipping projects; 2 Community emergency notification systems; and 3 Summer Youth Cadet Programming. Community-wide chipping projects to reduce fire fuel loads in vulnerable areas of the Dixon Fire District. Staffed mostly by Volunteers of Dixon VFD EMS with assistance from a professional arborist provider Baby Gorilla Tree Service. Community Emergency Notification system consists of implementation of the Nixle alert system and providing all households in the region with information on how to respond to emergencies; 3 Summer Youth Cadet Program is a week long program for young people ages 10 - 18 to learn fundamentals of home fire safety wildland fire safety water safety and CPR First Aid.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 53
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 78.9%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 21.1%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 41; 41st 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: -14.5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 78.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $54K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.