Firefighteraid Fka San Diego Firefighters Benevolent Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 336091348
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2013
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6192810354
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Emergency Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $260,957
- Expenses
- $254,309
- Assets
- $715,456
- Liabilities
- $27,646
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRANDT TRUVER (President)
- JOE KENNEDY (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- BRANDT TRUVER (President): $4,800 total reported compensation
- JOHN BRUBAKER (Treasurer): $4,800 total reported compensation
- COREY TENG (Secretary): $4,800 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide charitable relief, scholarship grants and other financial assistance to widows, orphans and distressed firefighters, their spouses and dependent children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 68% for direct work, and 32% for member benefits.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.9%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 86.3%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $78.09 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.5%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.81; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.9% of revenue deployed · 86.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $219K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $5K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 2 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.