East Hampton Fire Department Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 332371260
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- East Hampton, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6313240124
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fire Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $700,076
- Expenses
- $400,770
- Assets
- $574,216
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- James Morris (Secretary): $3,741 total reported compensation
- Charles Collins (Statistical Recorder): $3,741 total reported compensation
- Reed Jones (Treasurer): $1,941 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide fire protection services
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide fire protection services and recruitment and retention
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 98% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Multi-channel. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 30% for direct work, 25% for grants, and 45% for member benefits.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 38
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.2%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 77.3%; rating input score 77; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 12.5%; rating input score 12; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 42.8%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.43; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 57.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 120 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $401K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $4K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 43 of 44 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 12/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.