Elderville-Lakeport Volunteer Fire Department Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752954442
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Longview, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9036433222
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fire Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,537,076
- Expenses
- $1,481,860
- Assets
- $1,475,538
- Liabilities
- $9,499
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Chris Harding (President)
- Bert Edwards (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Chris Harding (President): $63,931 total reported compensation
- Jeanine Rounsavall (Secretary/Treas): $9,079 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Department is dedicated to the purpose of protecting the lives and property of the local and surrounding community by providing first responder services including fire containment and suppression, rescue services, membership training, fire prevention awareness, fire prevention inspections, and building and maintaining a fire response system to meet insurance standards.
What it reported doing in 2024
Fire containment and suppression, rescue services, member training, fire prevention awareness, fire prevention inspections, and building and maintaining a fire response system to meet insurance standards. The Department responded to 625 incidents for the year. Detail of accomplishments for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2025: Remodel of station 1 Radio upgrade project Placed a new command truck in service Purchased new Willand/rescue side x side for equipment inventory 2 volunteers completed fire certification testing Fire apparatus repairs and maintenance
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 95% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 28
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 99%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.6%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.9%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.4% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96% of revenue deployed · 99% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $64K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.