Firefighters for Healing
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800717709
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2016, Form 990-T 2024, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Champlin, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6127015055
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,454,351
- Expenses
- $1,265,044
- Assets
- $9,118,190
- Liabilities
- $4,295,090
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JACOB LAFERRIERE (PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- JEFF LARSON (DIRECTOR/CAMP RED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JACOB LAFERRIERE (PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $137,404 total reported compensation
- JEFF LARSON (DIRECTOR/CAMP RED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $75,614 total reported compensation
- RON JOHNSON (DIRECTOR/GAMBLING MANAGER): $30,000 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 mission of firefighters for healing is to support burn and trauma survivors through direct emotional and financial support at the time they most need it. Firefighters for healing provides innovative and holistic solutions to support burn survivors, first responders injured in the line of duty, and their families in a variety of ways.
What it reported doing in 2024
On average, nearly 7,000 children and adults are treated for severe burns and burn trauma each year in the twin cities alone. Recognizing the significant demand for emergency shelter for families of burn and trauma victims, as well as the limited resources available to address the physical and psychological healing care needed after discharge, the organization opened the transitional healing center in february 2023, located at 816 portland ave. S, suite 200, minneapolis, mn (still just one block from hennepin healthcare). This first of its kind space includes 12 suites, each with a full kitchen, private bathroom and in suite laundry, and is connected by the minneapolis skyway system to hennepin healthcare.addressing the need for additional emotional support and community connection, the transitional healing center has program space to complement existing services provided by area health systems, therapy rooms for patients, and social gathering spaces, including a common kitchen and dining area, lounge, and outdoor patio for families to engage with one another. This center addresses the often overlooked need for ongoing care, for burn survivors and first responders, as well as their families, in the weeks, months and years following a burn trauma.in 2024, firefighters for healing provided services to 780 individuals from 187 families, including 1,840 nights of shelter for 46 families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 82% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 78
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.2%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 74.4%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.77 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 95.5%; rating input score 96; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.21; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.47; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 22.3% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 34.8% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.2% of revenue deployed · 74.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 15 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $941K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $137K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 26/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.