Firetree Ltd
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232628605
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2021
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-T 2021
- Location
- Williamsport, PA, USA
- Phone
- 5706010877
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug and Substance Abuse, Dependency Prevention and Treatment
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $18,939,182
- Expenses
- $17,068,908
- Assets
- $43,848,366
- Liabilities
- $5,054,526
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILLIAM BROWN (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- AMY ERTEL (VICE PRESIDE): $339,206 total reported compensation
- WILLIAM BROWN (PRESIDENT): $336,000 total reported compensation
- GEORGE BISHOP (CORPORATE AT): $120,023 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Firetree's mission is to provide habitation coupled with treatment, counseling and life skills to any individual in need of those services. In carrying out this mission, firetree will focus on providing the services and skills that an individual, of any age or background will need to become a happy, productive member of his or her community.
What it reported doing in 2021
Firetree prides itself in providing quality transitional services to individuals associated with the criminal justice system and battling chemical abuse throughout their lives. We believe that drug and alcohol treatment is essential to effect change in thinking and behavior in order for clients to maintain sobriety and remain safe and healthy members of community. We focus on making change possible with our progressive programs and dedicated professional staff at our conewago family of treatment programs and criminal justice programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 68
- Accountability: 37
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.4%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 86.1%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- 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: 9.9%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.57; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.7%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.4% of revenue deployed · 86.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $14.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $339K · 5 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2016 to 2021
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Conflict-of-interest policy not reported.