Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203588745
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Jacksonville, FL, USA
- Phone
- 9048868300
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,776,992
- Expenses
- $11,032,385
- Assets
- $28,495,808
- Liabilities
- $863,181
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBIN SORENSEN (PRESIDENT DIRECTOR)
- ROBIN PETERS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ROBIN PETERS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $319,313 total reported compensation
- MEGHAN VARGAS (DIRECTOR, DEVELOPMENT): $177,901 total reported compensation
- JACQUELYN KOTOS (DIRECTOR, MARKETING): $160,457 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Firehouse subs public safety foundation is dedicated to improving the life-saving capabilities and the lives of local heroes and their communities
What it reported doing in 2025
Equipment donations impact millions of first responders and public safety organizations across the country. The firehouse subs public safety foundation's reach continues to grow. In 2025, 390 public safety organizations were awarded grants, and since its inception, the foundation has supported 7,014 organizations in all 50 states and puerto rico. Many public safety organizations now have the critical lifesaving equipment needed to respond to emergency situations. These tools have helped organizations respond more effectively and have contributed to improved outcomes during emergencies. Some highlights of approved grants in 2025; 424 sets of bunker gear, 187 thermal imagining cameras, 476 aeds, 21 rescue boats and 90 sets of extrication tools.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 92% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.3%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.1%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.58; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.2%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.3% of revenue deployed · 87.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $9.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $319K · 16 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 27 of 29 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 395 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 390 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D expense reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.