Fire Academy Support Team

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
270766641
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2012
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2012
Location
San Pedro, CA, USA
Phone
5622339904
Rating
56
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Safety Education

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,580
Expenses
$2,940
Assets
$1,835

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Mentor cadets through testing and hiring process

What it reported doing in 2012

Support the Pacific Coast Fire Academy. Teach students firefighting and emergency skills. Recruit high school students, especially minorities. Each year we serve approx. 100 students over the years over 1000 students have been served.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 35
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 46
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 32%; rating input score 32
  • Program expense ratio: 38.9%; rating input score 39

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 17.9%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -33.6% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 35.9% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 32.7% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 32% of revenue deployed · 38.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2010 to 2012
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 32/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 39/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
  • Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.