Elizabeth Firefighters Community Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202861740
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Elizabeth, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3036463800
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fire Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $57,661
- Expenses
- $91,688
- Assets
- $317,083
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brenden Regan (President)
- Elizabeth Reeder (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Brenden Regan (President)
- Elizabeth Reeder (Vice President)
- Kara Gerczynski (Board member)
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
The mission of the Elizabeth Firefighters Community Foundation shall be to promote education and mentoring to mankind, young or old, to cast a helping hand in time of need, while maintaining the bond of kindness and caring to all, without boundaries or prejudice.
What it reported doing in 2025
Chili cook off-This event raised money for the sheriff's office foundation, Elizabeth PD, CO State Patrol and this organizations to be used for anything they need.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 95% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 69% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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 total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 59.1%; rating input score 59
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -59%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.46; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -86.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.8% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94% of revenue deployed · 59.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $54K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.